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Making Possibilities out of the Impossible: Rural Migrant Workers Backdoor Economies and the Pitfall in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Kelly Wanjing Chen
2018
In recent years, rural Lao society has witnessed a fast transition away from traditional land-based livelihood. This tendency is shaped by a collusion between neoliberal Lao sta...
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The Geography of Security: Coercion, Comparative Advantage and Population Management Work in Contemporary Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Michael Dwyer
2018
In early 1988, Laoss Council of Ministers issued an instruction to the nations ministries, state committees, mass organizations, provinces and municipalities. Titled stepping up...
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Changes in Understandings of Land in Laos: From State Sovereignty to Capital Mobilization
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ian G. Baird
2019
My discussion with Mrs Khamtanh is relevant for thinking about how peoples conceptualizations of land have changed in Laos, not only between non-communist and communist periods,...
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Forest-Land Commons in Laos in the Twenty-First Century: Agrarian Capitalism and the Non-Commodified Subsistence Guarantee
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Keith Barney & Alex van der Meer Simo
2018
Over the last two decades, a broad alliance of domestic and international actors in the Lao PDR have devised policy interventions on the issue of strengthening customary tenure....
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Turning Land into Capital for Whom? Crises and Alternatives of Land Commodification in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Miles Kenney-Lazar
2018
On August 3rd, 2017, the Central Committee of the Lao Peoples Revolutionary Party (hereafter, the Party) the only legally permitted political party and the dominant political i...
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Dead in the Water: Global Lessons from the World Bank's model Hydropower project in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Bruce Shoemaker and William Robichaud
2018
In June 2018, the University of Wisconsin Press published a new book about the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos. The books findings relate to issues of environmental susta...
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Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
International Rivers
2019
The factsheet summarizes key findings and recommendations of the Council Study in relation to hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin. The findings of the Council Study...