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Atlas of Laos : the spatial structures of economic and social development of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
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ISBN: 8776945081 9788776945084 8787062879 9788787062879 9747551411 9789747551419 Year: 2000 Publisher: Copenhagen S, Denmark : Chiang Mai, Thailand : NIAS ; Silkworm Books,


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Laos : mensen, politiek, economie, cultuur, milieu
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ISBN: 9068323512 Year: 1999 Volume: *62 Publisher: Amsterdam Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT)


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Lao People's Democratic Republic : Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.
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ISBN: 1455280321 145276882X 1280892471 1452729638 9786613733788 Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) explains macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing. The Lao PDR’s long-term national development goal is to be achieved through sustained equitable economic growth and social development, while safeguarding the country’s social, cultural, economic, and political identity. The government’s sustained effort to eradicate poverty will become a mass mobilization exercise, empowering local communities and providing a coherent framework for mutually supportive actions by all stakeholders.


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Post-war Laos : The Politics of Culture, History and Identity
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ISBN: 9812305602 9812303561 9812303553 Year: 2006 Publisher: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,

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More than a quarter of century after the end of the war in 1975, the Lao leadership is still in search for a compelling nationalist narration. Its politics of culture and representation appear to be caught between the rhetoric of preservation and the desire for modernity. Meanwhile, originating from the periphery where ethnic minorities had hitherto been symbolically, politically and administratively confined, the participation of some of their members in the Indochina Wars (1945-75) exposed these individuals to socialization and politicization processes. This rigorously researched and cogently argued book is a fine-grained analysis of substantial ethnographic material, showing the politics of identity, the geographies of memory and the power of narratives of some members of ethnic minority groups who fought during the Vietnam War in the Lao People's Liberation Army and/or were educated within the revolutionary administration. No study has ever been conducted on the latter's views on the national(ist) project of the late socialist era. Their own perceptions of their membership of the nation have been overlooked. Post-War Laos is a set to be a landmark study, and an original contribution which refines established theories of nationalism, such as Anderson's 'imagined community', by addressing a common weakness: namely, their tendency to deny agency to individuals, who in fact interpret their relationship to, and place within, the nation in a variety of ways that may change according to time and circumstance.


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Heritage and the making of political legitimacy in Laos : the past and present of the Lao nation
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ISBN: 9048550718 9463727027 9789048550715 9789463727020 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The Lao People's Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states. Nearly five decades on from its revolutionary birth, the Lao population continues to build futures in and around a political landscape that maintains socialist rhetoric on one hand and capitalist economics on the other. Contemporary Lao politics is marked by the use of cultural heritage as a source of political legitimacy. Researched through long term detailed ethnography in the former royal capital of Luang Prabang, itself a UNESCO-recognised World Heritage Site since 1995, this book takes a fresh look at issues of legitimacy, heritage and national identity for different members of the Lao population. It argues that the political system has become sufficiently embedded to avoid imminent risk of collapse but suggests that it is facing new challenges primarily in the form of rising Chinese influence in Laos.

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