Abstract The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse nations in Southeast Asia. The post-1975 government's policies regarding ethnic minority peoples are often considered to represent an ideological shift from earlier monocultural orientations to a discourse of interethnic equality and solidarity. Yet a deeper reading of official policies, combined with an examination of planning measures, reveals a persistent discourse of ethnic Lao centrality. ...
Tópico(s): Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
The purpose of this study is to examine why some farmers stop selling their coffee to cooperatives certified by Fairtrade International; it does so by taking up the case of the coffee-producing area of Lao People's Democratic Republic. Through this examination, this study attempts to address two interrelated aspects: one is the reaction of farmers when fair trade is adopted as part of a government-driven development program, and the other is the middlemen's function of alleviating the burden of ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2017 - Society for Applied Anthropology | Human Organization
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Sébastien Boillat, Corinna Stich, Joan Bastide, Michael Epprecht, Sithong Thongmanivong, Andreas Heinimann,
This study explores the relationships between forest cover change and the village resettlement and land planning policies implemented in Laos, which have led to the relocation of remote and dispersed populations into clustered villages with easier access to state services and market facilities. We used the Global Forest Cover Change (2000–2012) and the most recent Lao Agricultural Census (2011) datasets to assess forest cover change in resettled and non-resettled villages throughout the country. We ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2015 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Environments
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2013 - | Landscape Architecture Frontiers
Este artigo examina o nexo entre conservação da natureza, produtividade e dominação nas abordagens de conservação inclusivas. Argumenta que a transformação de camponeses de subsistência em “administradores e custodiantes de biodiversidade” (CBD) representa uma forma suave de dominação de acordo com as falsas alternativas de instrumentalidade ecológica em que o desenvolvimento local é subordinado a supostas limitações “naturais”. O argumento se baseia em teorias críticas das relações entre natureza ...
Tópico(s): Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
2016 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARANÁ | Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2007 - | Journal of the Korean Society of International Agriculture
... social, y el “trialismo”, como lo ha llama-do Enrique Hernandez Laos, avasalla el desempeno economico. A falta de ideas, fuerza e imaginacion politica y sociologica, se acude a la mitomania y, ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Social Development
2006 - National Autonomous University of Mexico | Economía UNAM
Produção Nacional
Fábio Márcio Alkmin, Waldo Lao Fuentes Sánchez,
As organizações indígenas na América Latina vêm cada vez mais desenvolvendo estratégias de autonomia como forma de autodeterminação e defesa de seus territórios. Ainda que com grandes particularidades locais e regionais, a autonomia enquanto práxis destes povos busca basicamente a organização das comunidades a partir de mecanismos de territorialização e autogoverno, criando sistemas horizontais de deliberação política e apoio mútuo, além de formas de sociabilização autônomas às influências dos partidos ...
Tópico(s): Rural and Ethnic Education
2021 - | Revista verde grande/Revista Verde Grande
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
... de bem/mal como "globalização". Sobre o objeto política, o autor superporá o método complexo físico-semiótico (1) da Semioselogia, includente da fenomenologia Física (Heisenberg, Bohr, Lao Tzy), da Signologia (Peirce), e do Instrumento Operacional da Progmática (Modesto), e (2) da ...
Tópico(s): Brazilian Legal Issues
2003 - UFU Faculty of Law Magazine | Revista da Faculdade de Direito Universidade de São Paulo
In Laos, the "Turning Land into Capital" policy has accelerated the implementation of new land management and land legislation, and a huge land titling project is forthcoming with plans to standardize "joint ownership" for marital land. In this paper, based on a set of interviews, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) activities and 21 FGDs with women (and men) in 7 villages, the gender impact of the rural transition process and related new land policies on women living in a matrilineal-matrilocal village ...
Tópico(s): Land Rights and Reforms
2024 - Taylor & Francis | Gender Technology and Development
Abstract Based on research in a border village in Northeast Thailand and two villages in Laos, this paper discusses how formal regulations on cross‐border migration are negotiated, such that the practice becomes socially acceptable amongst receiving communities. This paper focuses on the border‐crossing experiences of Lao migrants to argue that regulations governing the Thai–Lao borders have been circumvented in response to labour demands in the Thai borderlands and mutual interest between local ...
Tópico(s): Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
2016 - Wiley | Asia Pacific Viewpoint
Xin Lao, Xiaoling Zhang, Tiyan Shen, Martin Skitmore,
The urban system has been a prevailing research issue in the fields of urban geography and regional economics. Not only do the relationships between cities in the city system exist in the form of rankings, but also in a more general network form. Previous work has examined the spatial structure of the urban system in terms of its separate industrial networks, such as in transportation and economic activity, but little has been done to compare different networks. To rectify this situation, this study ...
Tópico(s): China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
2016 - Elsevier BV | Cities
Matthew McCartney, Jake Brunner,
Relying on published literature, we reviewed water-energy-food issues in Lao PDR in the context of a policy shift to more sustainable 'green growth' and significantly increased infrastructure investment resulting from China's Belt and Road Initiative. The BRI provides the prospect for the country to address its infrastructure deficit and transform from a 'land-locked' to a 'land-linked' country. However, great care is needed to ensure that future investments do not result in further environmental degradation ...
Tópico(s): Transboundary Water Resource Management
2020 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Water Resources Development
Elizabeth Davis, Jenny Anne Glikman,
Unsustainable wildlife trade is a well-publicized area of international concern in Laos. Historically rich in both ethnic and biological diversity, Laos has emerged in recent years as a nexus for cross-border trade in floral and faunal wildlife, including endangered and threatened species. However, there has been little sustained research into the scale and scope of consumption of wildlife by Laos nationals themselves. Here, we conducted 100 semistructured interviews to gain a snapshot of consumption ...
Tópico(s): Primate Behavior and Ecology
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Animals
본 논문은 중국 시장 이후에 새로운 시장으로 부각되고 있는 인도차이나반도의 여러 국가 중 특히 라오스를 중심으로 중소기업의 수출정책 활성화 방안으로 연구되어졌다. 라오스는 사회주의 국가이지만 2014년 현재 활발한 개방정책을 필두로 교육, 사회, 문화적인 인적교류가 활발하게 진행되고 있고, 경공업 및 사회간접자본의 확충 등 경제개발을 위한 초석을 다지고 있다. 본 논문은 대기업과 정부의 공적 기관이 발 빠르게 대응하지 못하는 신흥 개척시장에 대한 선점을 위해 현지에서 이미 네트워크를 구축한 현지 개척개발인력, 예를 들면 봉사, 선교, 연구 개발인력들과의 인적네트워크 융합을 통해 성장하는 도시와 지역에서 중소기업의 활성화방안을 찾는다. This paper was studied in export policy Revitalization of SMEs mainly in various countries of Indochina, especially in Laos, which is emerging ...
Tópico(s): Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
2015 - | Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
Laos has launched ambitious plans on poverty reduction greatly by developing hydropower in the mainstream of the Mekong River. However, upstream dam construction may result in salt water intrusion followed by ecology deterioration of downstream countries in a transboundary river context. These potential impacts could worsen economy and social growth, ecology security, and residents' lives to downstream states. Furthermore, diplomatic crisis may be triggered if all stakeholders do not handle the ...
Tópico(s): Water Governance and Infrastructure
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Energy Sources Part B Economics Planning and Policy
Miles Kenney‐Lazar, Grace Wong, Himlal Baral, A. Russell,
Over the past decade, the cultivation of rubber trees has expanded rapidly throughout the Mekong region to non-traditional rubber growing areas of Laos and Myanmar. Prompted by rising prices from 1990 to 2010 and government agro-industrialization policies, farmers and investors have rushed to plant the new boom crop. A latex price crash in 2011, however, has made it more challenging for small-scale producers to earn an income, leading to uneven social-ecological transformations and economic consequences. ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2018 - Elsevier BV | Geoforum
Given that houses have become a key signifier of an orientation towards the future, several villagers in Pliya can be regarded or regard themselves as pioneers of the construction of a new type of house. I will suggest here that the construction of new concrete houses is not to be understood merely as an adoption of lowland styles but as a self-conscious and selective use of a style of building. Those who are pioneering these houses also discuss their efforts in terms of pioneering acts, emphasising ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2021 - Wiley | Social Anthropology
R. T. C. Pratt, Sekson Yongvanit,
This paper is based on interviews conducted with eight current and emerging Laotian local leaders who work for international nongovernmental organizations in and around the Laotian capital of Vientiane. It analyzes and interprets their responses to five questions asked in structured, in-depth interviews. These questions explore the meaning of “leadership”, what motivates them to do what they do, where they learned to lead, the challenges of leading, and their perceptions of the mistakes local leaders ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2016 - Elsevier BV | Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences
Since 2006, the government of Laos has pursued a policy of “Turning Land into Capital”, which broadly refers to the generation of economic value from the marketization of land, producing not only profit but also government revenue and economic development. The policy's ambiguity raises questions regarding the precise political-economic processes at work and what exactly the transformation of land into capital might mean. Building on Marxist theorizations of land, value, capital, and rent, this paper ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2021 - SAGE Publishing | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
Puwadej Thanichanon, Dietrich Schmidt‐Vogt, Michael Epprecht, Andreas Heinimann, Urs Wiesmann,
This study investigates the effects of improved market accessibility on agricultural land use and basic wellbeing, defined by income and rice sufficiency, in Xayaburi province, Lao PDR through a meso-scale and actor-oriented approach with data collection at both district and household level. It also investigates farmers' decision-making as it relates to regional markets. Increasing market accessibility in rural areas facilitates cash crop trade leading to agrarian change from subsistence to commercial ...
Tópico(s): Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
2018 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
Sthabandith Insisienmay, Vanthana Nolintha, Innwon Park,
Searching for evidence of Dutch disease in the Lao economy, we do find some of its symptoms, though they are not very strong. Accordingly, we propose some policy options to mitigate its effects and ensure the sustainable development of the Lao economy: (a) invest the revenues from the booming resource-intensive exports, foreign direct investment and official development assistance in infrastructure and education; (b) reduce import barriers against capital and equipment imports; (c) establish a natural ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2015 - SAGE Publishing | International Area Studies Review
Somvang Phimmavong, Rodney J. Keenan, Barbara Ozarska,
Over the past decade, the world has observed a major growth in the development of forest plantations. Despite the considerable number of studies that have been undertaken to examine the impact of forest plantation development, there has been relatively little investigation of the economic impact of plantations. Lao People's Democratic Republic (hereafter Lao PDR or Laos) has implemented policies to expand plantations based on their contribution to economic development. This paper examines the economy- ...
Tópico(s): Economic and Environmental Valuation
2020 - | FORMATH
The power of today’s tech giants has prompted calls for changes in antitrust law and policy which, for decades, has been exceedingly permissive in merger enforcement and in constraining dominant firm conduct. Economically, the fear is that the largest digital platforms are so dominant and its data advantage so substantial that competition is foreclosed, resulting in long term harm to consumers and to the economy. But the concerns extend beyond economics. Critics also worry that the large platforms’ ...
Tópico(s): Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
2019 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Book Review| October 01 2016 Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos Creak, Simon. Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015. Pp. 327. Illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. $54.00, hb. Geoffery Z. Kohe Geoffery Z. Kohe University of Worcester Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2016) 43 (3): 337–338. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.43.3. ...
Tópico(s): Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
2016 - University of Illinois Press | Journal of Sport History
Hat Ang, mythological culture hero of the Phong (an ethnic minority in Laos), exemplifies the figure of the upland pioneer. Taking the legend of Hat Ang as a vantage point, this paper discusses the ethnohistory of this specific Austroasiatic group and offers a mythological perspective into the discussion of uplanders’ agency and future-making. This key myth of the Phong addresses questions of remoteness and relationality, of individual aspirations and hubris. Therefore, investigating mythology is ...
Tópico(s): Cambodian History and Society
2021 - Wiley | Social Anthropology
The power of today’s tech giants has prompted calls for changes in antitrust law and policy which, for decades, has been exceedingly permissive in merger enforcement and in constraining dominant firm conduct. Economically, the fear is that the largest digital platforms are so dominant and its data advantage so substantial that competition is foreclosed, resulting in long term harm to consumers and to the economy. But the concerns extend beyond economics. Critics also worry that the large platforms’ ...
Tópico(s): Legal Systems and Judicial Processes
2020 - Routledge | William and Mary law review
Ensaio visual centrado em Boten, no Laos, uma cidade que emerge na voragem do desenvolvimento rápido e das novas rotas da globalização traçadas a régua e esquadro sobre mapas, países e pessoas.
Tópico(s): Philippine History and Culture
2023 - UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE BRASÍLIA | Esferas
Takahiro Yamada, Hiroyuki Yamada,
... long term. Meanwhile, we find that the results do not necessarily support the conditional convergence hypothesis within a country, although this result could be Lao-specific.
Tópico(s): Economic Zones and Regional Development
2024 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
The debut work of Mattie Do and Anysay Keola attests to the manner in which Lao cinema is being shaped by a new wave of young filmmakers determined to build a viable movie industry in the Lao PDR. With Chantaly, the first Lao horror movie, Mattie Do conjures up a world that cannot be fully explained rationally. She relies on the phi figure, and the belief of Lao people in supernatural beings, to raise serious questions about the traditional position occupied by women in the Lao family. Another film, ...
Tópico(s): Cinema and Media Studies
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Visual Anthropology