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The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Scott Morris
2019
The Kunming-Vientiane (K-V) railway, part of the Kunming-Singapore multi-country rail network (or Pan-Asia Railway), is an anchor investment of the Chinese governments Belt and ...
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Report on China-Laos Cooperation Opportunities under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Zhang Tuo, Yu Hui, Rong Zhongxia
2018
Report on China-Laos Cooperation Opportunities under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018
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Statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur
2019
On paper, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic has made great progress in poverty reduction over recent decades. And after more than twenty years of striving to graduate from lea...
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Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Friis, Cecilie, and Jonas Nielsen
2017
This paper investigates the case of a recent boom in commercial banana cultivation in Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR, we use a grounded empirical approach starting with the obs...
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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...
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Offloading Risks & Avoiding Liabilities: How Financial Institutions Consider Hydropower Risks in Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ame Trandem
2019
The collapse of Saddle Dam D of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam project in Southern Laos in July 2018 directed a great deal of public attention to the risks and dangers associated wit...
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Reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention : International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination : 16th to 18th periodic reports of States parties due in 2009 : Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
2011
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Population Census Lao PDR 2005
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Lao Statistics Bureau
2006
This is a publication for population census of Lao PDR for 2005.
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Provisional Report of the 4th Lao Population and Housing Census 2015
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Lao Statistics Bureau
2015
This report is the first to be generated from the 2015 Population and Housing Census. The main objective of this report is to disseminate some of the key results of the Census w...
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Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
David J.H. Blake & Keith Barney
2018
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most si...
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Overview of Internal Migration in Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
UNESCO, UNDP, IOM, and UN-Habitat
2018
This brief is part of a series of Policy Briefs on Internal Migration in Southeast Asia jointly produced by UNESCO, UNDP, IOM, and UN-Habitat. It provides facts on migration sit...
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IOM and Labour Migration: Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
International Organization for Migration
2018
This fact sheet gives an overview on Special Economic Zones in Lao PDR. It also reflects lessons from actual site visits by International Organization for Migration.
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Results of Population and Housing Census 2015
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Lao Statistics Bureau
2016
This report consists of the 2015 population and housing census results, contained detailed and disaggregated information on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the...
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Strategy on climate change of the Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
ລັດຖະບານ ແຫ່ງ ສ ປ ປ ລາວ
2010
The document reports about the key strategic priorities toward climate change in Laos. These include adaptation and mitigation on different sectors such as agriculture and food ...
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10-facts-on-biodiversity-conservation-in-laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), Deutsche...
This dataset has no description
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US Department of State fact sheet - Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Issue and policy briefs
US Department of State
2015
Short fact sheet on United States relations with Laos, US assistance to Laos, bilateral economic relations and Laos' membership in international organisations.
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Annual review of REDD+ activities in Laos 2010
Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Laos. Department of Forestry
2011
The report is about the role REDD has played in project development in the forest sector in Laos. Since 2009, a number of projects have come into existence under facilitation of...
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Graduation from Least Developed Country Status: The 5th National Human Development Report
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Dr. Sarthi Acharya, Dr. Sitthiroth Rasphone
2017
The 5th National Human Development Report (NHDR) examines different facets of underdevelopment in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) that classify it as a Least Deve...
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Ecotourism as an Alternative to Upland Rubber Cultivation in the Nam Ha National Protected Area, Luang Namtha
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Advocacy and promotional materials
Steven Schipani
2007
Tourism arrivals in Laos continue to rise, reaching over one million people in 2005. It seems that visitors are primarily interested in the country’s natural and cultural attrac...
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Drivers of Forest Change in the Greater Mekong Subregion: Lao PDR Country Report
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ian Llyod Thomas
2015
The main objective of this study was to review and analyze existing information on the drivers of change currently affecting Lao forests - including both negative and positive d...