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The Mekong Region: Economic and Social Impact of Projects

This issue focuses on the economic and social impacts of projects in the Mekong Region.

The inaugural issue of The Mekong Region: An Economic Overview was published in March 2004 and had as its theme debt sustainability in the less developed countries of the Mekong subregion.

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Contents

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Executive Summary

I. Introduction

II. Recent Economic Performance

1. Regional Overview
2. Cambodia
3. Lao PDR
4. Myanmar
5. Thailand
6. Viet Nam

III. Economic and Social Impact of Projects: An Analytical Framework

1. Introduction
2. From Infrastructure to Welfare: Mechanisms of Transmission
3. New Facilities versus Maintenance
4. Infrastructure and Incomes: Distributional Issues
5. Infrastructure and Access to Public Services: Benefit Incidence Analysis
6. Infrastructure and Expenditures: Effects on the Poor
7. The Interaction between Infrastructure and Other Factors
8. Conclusions

IV. Economic and Social Impact of Projects: Road Development in the Lao PDR

1. Introduction
2. Summary Data on Roads, Poverty, Education, and Health
3. Isolating the Effects of Roads on Poverty
4. Isolating the Effects of Roads on Education and Health
5. Conclusions

V. Summary and Conclusions

References

Appendixes