David Dapice

TL;DR: A horizon-scanning approach was used to assess the 40 emerging issues most affecting Myanmar's forests, including internal conflict, land-tenure insecurity, large-scale agricultural development, demise of state timber enterprises, shortfalls in government revenue and capacity, and opening of new deforestation frontiers with new roads, mines, and hydroelectric dams.

TL;DR: The fourth annual Vietnam Executive Leadership Program (VELP) as discussed by the authors was held at the Harvard Kennedy School from August 26 to 30, 2013, where participants, including Vietnamese government officials, scholars, and corporate executives, provided a concise assessment of some of the key public policy challenges confronting Vietnam today.

TL;DR: The Mekong Delta is the agricultural heart of Vietnam and home to nearly 20 million people as mentioned in this paper, however, the Delta is distressed by several domestic and regional forces, including rural development, resource mismanagement, upstream damming, climate change, and failure to implement policies to link several systems.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an analysis of the tax system and provide a set of recommendations for the future evaluation of the system, based on which they propose a tax model for future evaluation.

TL;DR: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently released an excellent report on Myanmar's energy sector as discussed by the authors, which presented estimates of future demand growth by the Ministry of Electric Power for electricity.