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Slavery and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Sol Torres, Niklas Swanström
2014
An estimated 30 million people are subject to modernday slavery, including forced labor and sexual exploitation. Moreover, the trafficking of human beings is one of the fastest ...
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Education for All 2015 National Review Report: Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ministry of Education and Sports
2014
This report, National EFA 2015 Review Report, presents the progress made in achieving the six EFA goals with available disaggregated information. Furthermore, it describes the c...
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Voluntary National Review on the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Government of the Lao PDR
2018
The Voluntary National Review underscores the commitment of the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It summarizes ...
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Child Sexual Exploitation in Travel and Tourism: A brief analysis of domestic legal frameworks in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and VietNam
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
UNODC
2018
The UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific recently undertook legislative reviews in the above four countries to examine the extent to which domestic legislati...
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Comparison of Anti-Trafficking Legal Regimes and Actions in the Council of Europe and ASEAN: Realities, Frameworks and Possibilities for Collaboration
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Marija Jovanovic
2018
Europe and Southeast Asia are the only regions in the world to have adopted comprehensive legally binding anti-trafficking conventions: the Council of Europe Convention on Actio...
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Migrating fish and mobile knowledge: situated fishers knowledge and social networks in the lower Mekong River Basin in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia
Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Ian G. Baird and Kanokwan Manorom
2019
Various terms are used to characterize fishers knowledge. Here we use situated fishers knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao fis...
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Nam ou river basin profile: summary document
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Profiles - Geographical areas and sites
World Bank
2017
The Nam Ou Basin Profile is a collective effort among various stakeholders at the central, provincial, district, and village levels. The main objective of the Nam Ou River Basin...
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An Assessment in Monitoring Options and Capacity Building Needs in Houaphanh Province
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Mortenson, Leif, Halperin, James
2012
This report discusses options for identifying and developing forest monitoring methodologies that can estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest degradation. This is...
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Nutrition in Lao PDR : Causes, Determinants, and Bottlenecks
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank Group
2016
Undernutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns abo...
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Lao PDR Economic Monitor, August 2019 : Maintaining Economic Stability
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank Group
2019
Economic growth in Lao PDR is projected to rebound to 6.5 percent in 2019, up from 6.3 percent in 2018. This pick up is expected to be driven by growth of the construction secto...
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Commercialization of Rice and Vegetables Value Chains in Lao PDR : Status and Prospects
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank Group
2018
Rice is Lao PDR's biggest agricultural commodity in terms of farmers involved in production, cropland area allocated, and food consumption. Rice also generates important economi...
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Economy Profile of the Lao People's Democratic Republic: Doing Business 2019
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank Group
2018
Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 covers 11 areas of business regulation. Ten of these areas - starti...
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Education For All: National Plan of Action 2003-2015
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Action Plan
March 24, 2005
The National EFA Action Plan contains the Government’s policy and strategic framework for action for basic education which covers development targets and programmes for six basi...
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Government Expenditure on Health in Lao PDR : Overall Trends and Findings from a Health Center Survey
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank Group
2016
This policy note provides an overview of government health financing in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (PDR), with an added focus on health center financing. The note summa...
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Safety, health and well-being of Lao PDR's workers on the rise
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Archived web content
United Nations in Lao PDR
2016
The webpage provides an overview of the safety, health, and wellbeing of workers in Lao PDR.
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2016 Lao PDR Enterprise Survey : Country Highlights
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank Group
2017
The World Bank Group conducted face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners of 368 enterprises in Lao PDR from January 2016 through June 2016. The Enterprise Su...
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The Lao Cookstove Experience : Redefining Health through Cleaner Energy Solutions
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Dave, Rutu; Balasundaram, Rema N.
2016
Redefining Health through Cleaner Energy Solutions. In the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic household air pollution from the incomplete combustion of solid fuels is the top healt...
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Partnerships and Opportunities for a New Green Forest Economy in Lao PDR : Sustaining Forest Landscapes and Livelihoods
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
World Bank Group
2019
Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has a comparative advantage in natural capital, which has fueled economic growth averaging around 8 percent per annum since 2000. The ...
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The Millennium Development Goals Progress Report for the Lao PDR 2013
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Reports, journal articles, and research papers (including theses and dissertations)
Government of the Lao PDR, United Nations
2013
This Progress Report aims to capture the situation of the Lao PDR with regard to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals since 1990 up to the present time (2013),...
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Foreign Aid to Laos
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Analysis, discussion papers, and blogs
Mekong Watch
2016
This paper is a briefing on Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Lao PDR, 2010-2014.