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The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project
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
Report on China-Laos Cooperation Opportunities under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018
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The Impacts of Feeder Road Expansion on Livelihood and Spatial Pattern Case Study in Natong Cluster, Huaphan Province, Lao PDR
The study assesses the impact of maize feeder roads on livelihood through statistical analysis and quantified spatial pattern based on spatial analysis employing Geographic Info...
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Livelihood factors and household strategies for an unexpected climate event in upland Northern Laos 2015
This study evaluated the livelihoods of upland people in northern Laos following an unexpected climate event—early onset of the rainy season. The study helps explain ...
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Hydropower resettlement and livelihood adaptation: The Nam Mang 3 project in Laos February 2015
Hydropower development in the vicinity of the Nam Mang 3 hydropower project has impacted farming households and communities. The impacts vary with household access to livelihood...
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Report on Macroeconomic Trends from 2012-2013
Report outlining international and national macroeconomic conditions in Lao PDR in 2012 and 2013, and trends between the years.
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UN Webpages for the MDGs
UN Webpages for MDGs 2, 4, and 6.
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Statistical Report on Tourism in Laos
The Tourism Development Department (TDD), Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism publishes annually tourism statistics relating to tourist arrivals, foreign exchange ear...
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Maternal and Child Survival Program Newsletter: 16 September 2018
Newsletter of the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) program activities in September 2018.
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Eighth National Five Year Socio-Economic Development Plan
The Five Year National Socio-Economic Development Plan VIII (2016-2020) (8th NSEDP) is a means of implementing the National Strategy on Socio-Economic Development until 2025 and...
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SDG Goals
Contains archived webpages for the SDGs. Archives were taken on June 4, 2019.
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Signature and Ratification Status
UNODC signature and ratification status webpage for the UN Convention against Corruption. This is an archive of a website that was taken on June 3, 2019.
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Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform
UN Webpage that contains information regarding SDG 16. Includes all of the targets and indicators for SDG 16.
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Discussion Paper: The Sustainable Development Goals in the context of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic November 2015
This is an analysis to inform discussion between the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the United Nations (UN) on the adaptation of the Sustainabl...
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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
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
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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Discussion paper: The sustainable development goals in the context of the Lao people’s democratic republic november 2015
This is an analysis to inform discussion between the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) and the United Nations (UN) on the adaptation of the Sustainabl...
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Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong
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
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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Getting to know "Brou", the 50th ethnic group of Laos, according to the National Assembly
The National Assenbly has officially adopted "Brou" as an ethnic group in the Lao PDR on December 5th 2018 during the 6th ordinary session of the National Assembly's 8th legisla...