Publications

The Ministers of Tourism of the 6 GMS countries (Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam) met in Ha Noi, Viet Nam, on 9 January 2009. Senior officials from the GMS National Tourism Organizations (NTOs), the Mekong Tourism Coordinating Office (MTCO), and development partners including the Asian Development Bank, French Embassy, European Union, Netherlands Development Cooperation (SNV), and GTZ, and US-supported ASEAN Competitiveness Enhancement Project also attended the meeting.

Developing the energy sector will help realize an integrated and prosperous Mekong subregion.

The upgrade of Route 3 of the Northern Economic Corridor has not only improved connectivity and mobility but also has introduced potential health challenges.

This is the meeting summary from the 4th Semi-Annual Meeting of the Greater Mekong Subregion Working Group on Environment  (WGE-SAM 4) held in Bangkok, Thailand on 25 November 2009.

This training material aims to strengthen officials' and experts' understanding of the trade barriers that affect trade in goods and the economic determinants of such trade; proposals made in different forums to reform border policies affecting trade in goods and the analysis of those proposals, with a particular focus on the strategic questions raised by regional trade agreements; and particular challenges facing trade policy makers in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Against the backdrop of growing momentum for regional cooperation and integration (RCI) in Asia, this paper examines the link between regional roads and Asian Development Bank (ADB) support between 1966 and 2008.

The novel methodology used in this paper includes an Asia-wide definition of regional roads that fall on the Asian Highway (AH) network. The AH network is a system of about 140,000 kilometers (km) of standardized roads crisscrossing many Asian countries and with linkages to Europe.

The Sixth Meeting of the Greater Mekong Subregion Working Group on Agriculture (WGA-6) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 13-14 October 2009.

Services account for a significant share of the subregion’s GDP, ranging from 25.7% in the Lao People's Democratic Republic to 39.1% in Cambodia and 46.0% in Thailand

The Thirteenth Meeting of the Subregional Transport Forum (STF-13) was held in Siem Reap, Cambodia on 27-28 October 2009. The Meeting was jointly organized by the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Cambodia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).