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MDGs in the Lao PDR
In September of 2000, world leaders gathered at the Millennium Summit in New York City and signed the UN Millennium Declaration. This document is the foundation for the MDGs, a ...
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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Migration Activities
This webpage provides a summary of migration activities in Lao PDR, specifically migration profiles and interconnecting needs.
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Sengsavang - What we do
The webpage provides an overview of the work that Sengsavang, an organization that provides assistance to vulnerable girls and human trafficking victims, does on a regular basis.
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The broken dream - A story of forced labor
The web piece tells a story of R-sone, a trafficking victim who was taken to Thailand, to display the condition of human trafficking in Laos.
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Nam Theun 2 Project Overview
The page offers an overview of Nam Theun 2 hydro-power project as of 2017, along with every stage of project updates.
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National Trafficking Trends: Lao PDR
The page offers an overview of human trafficking trends, anti-trafficking mechanisms and the encountered challenges in Lao PDR.
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Laos electricity consumption
Annual data on the consumption of electricity in Laos presented in total kilowatt-hours.
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SDG5 Gender Equality
This page provides a summary of the progress that Lao PDR has made on SDG5, gender equality.
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Crazier than Fiction: the Elephant Rangers of Laos
Four years ago, as monsoon rain streaked down dusty windows, Sebastien Duffilot, the founder of Laos Elephant Conservation Centre (ECC) in Xayaboury, near Luang Prabang, and I s...
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The territorial politics of land use planning in Laos
This paper examines land use planning processes in Laos, particularly how they are shaped and reshaped by key actors interests and strategies across scales and how they are clos...
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Catalyzing Subnational Development in Myanmar
This paper aims to extract lessons from development partners’ engagement in Myanmar to offer suggestions for improved subnational governance and balanced regional development. T...
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Comments on Draft report on Myanmars National REDD+ Strategy
In March, 2018, the Myanmar REDD+ program released its National REDD+ strategy draft report. Forest Trends has provided the following comments to the report authors in hopes tha...
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Laos 2017 Trafficking in Persons Report
The report provides a human trafficking profile in Laos, as well as recommendations and the state of prosecution, protection, and prevention in the country.
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Laos 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report
The report covers the current human trafficking situation in Laos, as well as recommendations and the state of prosecution, protection, and prevention in the country.
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Fighting Poverty with Tea in Laos
The mountain forests of northern Laos, remote regions that are home to many ethnic minorities, are native habitat for the tea plant (Camellia sinensis). Approximately 95% of the...
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Myanmar Economic Bulletin: Volume 1, Number 1
Welcome to the first issue of the Myanmar Economic Bulletin, the flagship publication of the Myanmar Development Institute (MDI). A think-tank established by the notification fr...
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Promoting Transparency and Monitoring of Contracts
Members of parliament play a key role in monitoring the implementation of oil, gas, and mineral contracts. Public disclosure of such contracts is a critical prerequisite for p...
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Making Possibilities out of the Impossible: Rural Migrant Workers Backdoor Economies and the Pitfall in Lao PDR
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
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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Alternatives to Land Grabbing: Smallholder Engagement in Commodity Booms in Southeast Asia
Given the widespread smallholder impulse to engage in commodity booms in Southeast Asia and the potential for this engagement to offer a more inclusive development pathway than ...