Baseline Survey for Socio-economic Impact Assessment: Greater Mekong Sub-region Transmission Project

This research project represents the first baseline socioeconomic survey that CDRI has conducted for the Greater Mekong Sub-region Transmission Project of Asian Development Bank. The study was designed to develop a set of comprehensive baseline demographic, social and economic as well as energy consumption indicators for the project. The tools...

HOSSEIN Jalilian   (2012)

Cost and Benefits of Cross-Country Labour Migration in the Greater Mekong Subregion

International labour migration can be characterised in three ways – as human aspiration, tradition, and necessity. For some people, working overseas is a dream. For others, international labour mobility is a tradition. For a great number of people however, international labour migration is an economic necessity. It is the only viable solu...