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A brief overview of foreign investment in Laos, predominantly from China, but also from other neighboring countries, and their effect on Laos' development, politics, and percept...

The Poverty-Environment Initiative (PEI) in Lao PDR aims to strengthen capacity of targeted central and provincial authorities to integrate poverty-environment concerns and opp...

The author researches land titling issues, using the case studies of Bolivia and Laos to explore women's difficulties in acquiring rights to land, involvement of CSOs in titling...

This report, the sixth in the Development Series, summarises key aspects of the fisheries of Lao PDR, providing an introduction and overview for a general audience. It is hoped ...

Research on foreign direct investment (FDI) in land in Lao PDR, including the policy and legal frameworks, forms of investment, and driving factors of FDI, and recommendations f...

Guidelines from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) to guide developers and their consultants in conducting and reporting on environmental impact assessmen...

The present Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) 2011 to 2020 is a long term frame-work for the development of the sector, which is not intended to provide operati...

This volume presents a descriptive and quantitative analysis of the current secondary crop agriculture and development constraints and options. This study focuses on policy reco...

Results from a pilot study on land titling in two provinces in Laos. Includes community interviews, comparison of pilot cases, success factors, and recommendations.

Research on tree plantations in Lao PDR, their effects on smallholders, the legal context that enables plantation, and foreign investment, including recommendations for sustaina...

A workshop on illegal land conversion in Laos, its social and environmental impacts, driving factors, and future areas for improvement.

This research was carried out as part of the final evaluation of LANGOCA program, which aimed to reduce poverty and clear UXO across provinces in Laos. The objective of the stud...

This report is a review of the use of NTFPs in Luang Prabang, with the aim of directing World Vision's work to further develop NTFPs and support poverty reduction for communitie...

A review of participatory agriculture and forest land use planning (PLUP) in Lao PDR and how it can contribute to sustainable landscape management and livelihood improvement. In...

This is the first country-wide food security study undertaken in the Lao PDR. Its purpose is to provide WFP and its partners with a good understanding of the nature and extent o...

IMF statement to the attendees at the 2014 Round Table Implementation Meeting in Lao PDR on the state of the Lao economy, poverty reduction, and fiscal stability.

The Basin Development Plan Phase 2 (BDP2) is designed to provide an integrated basin perspective through the participatory development of a rolling Integrated Water Resources Ma...

Assessment of Phaxay District in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, including biophysical information, socio-economic, demographic and administrative data collected for the purpose of crea...

This thesis examines current agricultural systems in Xieng Ngeun District, in Luang Prabang Province, Lao PDR and the economic and agrarian transition occurring at individual, c...

Summary of workshop proceedings. Issues discussed included government oversight of and cooperation with private sector to ensure laws on timber logging are observed.