Projects fall into one of two broad classifications.
Six such comprehensive projects are currently underway in Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, the People s Republic of China, and South America. The following section presents recent developments in several ongoing comprehensive projects and, in keeping with this year s focus on Southeast Asia, spotlights important research sites in Thailand and Vietnam where collaborative projects are currently being pursued. In addition, new projects in Indonesia and West Africa are scheduled to begin during FY 1998. Under this program, a research coordinator in the Research Information Division assumes the role of project leader, helping to conduct socio-economic studies to identify the most pressing research priorities in counterpart countries. The research coordinator then helps to organize and oversee collaboration among researchers in all participating Research Divisions of the Institute.