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Lao PDR Economic Monitor: Restoring Macroeconomic Stability to Support Recovery
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Keomanivone Phimmahasay, Somneuk Davading, Pedro Martins, Chanin...
2022
As the Lao economy begins its recovery from the effects of the worldwide slowdown caused by COVID-19, the country faces challenges caused by long-standing macroeconomic vulnerab...
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USAID/LAOS COUNTRY-LEVEL GENDER ANALYSIS
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Britt, Charla PhD, Angela Oliver-Burgess PhD, Phothong Siliphong...
2022
A gender analysis is a systematic process used to identify, understand, and describe gender differences and the relevance of gender roles, responsibilities, rights, opportunitie...
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Get CLEAN and GREEN—Solid and Plastic Waste Management in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The World Bank
2022
This synthesis document summarizes the findings of this extensive analytical work and provides recommendations for change to support the outcomes of the National Green Growth St...
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9th Five - Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2021-2025)
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
Ministry of Planning and Investment
2021
The 9th Five-Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan (2021-2025) aims to translate the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress, as well as continue the implementation of th...
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Assessment of the new Land Law and Forestry Law in Laos: Customary Tenure Rights over Land and Forests
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mekong Region Land Governance, Land Info Working Group
2021
This report specifically details the differences between the newly promulgated Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws, the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007,...
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Guide on Responsible Agriculture and Forestry Investment in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Case studies
governments, The Lao National Chamber of Commerce and Industry...
2021
This guide studied and compiled relevant Lao investment principles, regulations, and laws; investment principles from ASEAN and the international level; and Chinese government g...
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Contract farming in Laos: Responding to a rising agricultural trend
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Dr Robert Cole, Dr Robert Cole, Sengthong Soukhathammavong
2021
This discussion note explores common practices of contract farming (CF) in Laos, which have rapidly expanded for export crops across many provinces since the early 2000s. The an...
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What is the Forest Cover of Lao PDR? Understanding forest area figures
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
FAO; Department of Forestry (Forest Assessments)
2021
This leaflet identifies how the selection of forest definition affect efforts towards achieving the government’s 70 percent forest cover target. What figures for forest area sho...
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Planned resettlement, unexpected migrations and cultural trauma in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Olivier Evrard and Yves Goudineau
2004
Though not officially considered a 'policy' by the Lao government, resettlement of ethnic minorities has become a central feature of the rural development strategy in Laos. Over...
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Challenges and Opportunities of Recognizing and Protecting Customary Tenure Systems in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
FAO and MRLG
2019
This policy brief was developed in order to enable a meaningful engagement and policy dialogue with government institutions and other relevant stakeholders about challenges and ...
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Securing Land Rights of Smallholder Farmers The Secure Access to Land and Resources (SALaR) Project Experience in Laos, the Philippines, and Uganda
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Philippines
Advocacy and promotional materials
Global Land Tool Network/UN-Habitat, VFI (Funded by BMZ/Federal...
2018
The Social Tenure Domain Model (STDM) is considered as one of the pilot land management platforms that has been initiatively developed as capacity building and tool development ...
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From Landlocked to Land-linked: Unlocking the potential of Lao-China railway connectivity
China, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
: Chanin Manopiniwes, Task Team Leader; Mombert Hoppe, Co-Task...
2020
This analytical report is produced by world bank which compiles 5 chapters starting from the broader economic context of the railway sector and evaluating the complementary ref...
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2021 economic report on socio-economic situation and environmental impact caused by COVID-19 outbreak
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
The National Institute of Social Sciences
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Assessment of the new Land Law and Forestry Law in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Customary Tenure Rights over Land and Forests
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Tony Lamb , United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization, the...
2021
The report explains the differences between the new Land Law and Forestry Law and their predecessor laws (the Land Law 2003 and the Forestry Law 2007). Compare the new Land La...
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Facilitating agreements for community–private sector partnerships in forest landscapes in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Books and book chapters
Chay Senkhammoungkhoun, Trang Thu Hoang , Martin Greijmans
2021
This book is a guidance to help practitioners facilitate partnership agreements for the sustainable trade of forest products and/or services in the context of forest landscape r...
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Impact of COVID-19 on Children, Adolescents, and their family in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
the Centre for Development Policy Research of the Ministry of...
2021
This report estimates the potential effect of COVID-19 on socioeconomic indicators of interest in Lao PDR along with secondary data sources, existing data and information to ide...
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Bridging the gap: How to get climate services to farmers
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Guidelines, instruction manuals, handbooks
2021
This booklet presents the methodologies used by the project “Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and f...
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Lao PDR Economic Monitor: Livelihoods in the Time of COVID-19
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Fang Guo (co-Task Team Leader, Economist), Somneuk Davading...
2021
The Lao PDR Economic Monitor provides updates on macroeconomic developments and sectoral issues in the country. It is produced biannually and distributed widely to government ag...
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Credit crunch: Chinese infrastructure lending and Lao sovereign debt
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Keith Barney, Kanya Souksakoun
2021
This article identifies the root of the government debt crisis focusing on the role of hydropower in form of the provision of the new short term credit of china. Outlining the o...
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Laos Confirmed Cases of Covid19
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
2020
It is a collection of archived news websites about the number of confirmed cases of Covid19 in Laos.