Living with Transition in Laos
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Champassak Province
economic development Southeast Asia
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Khammouan Province
Lao Loum
Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao Soung
Lao Theung
Laos
Livelihood Footprint
local level economic transition Laos
luang
Luang Namtha
Luang Namtha Province
Luang Prabang
Luang Prabang Province
municipality
nakai
Nakai Plateau
Nam Ngum
namtha
Participatory Poverty Assessment
pdr
plateau
policy impact assessment
poverty and inequality research
prabang
province
Resettlement Villages
rural livelihoods analysis
Sang Thong
savannakhet
Savannakhet Province
social differentiation studies
subsistence economy transformation
Vice Versa
vientiane
Vientiane Municipality
Xe Bang Fai River
Xieng Khouang
Product details
- ISBN 9780415649766
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2012
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Laos - the Lao People's Democratic Republic - is one of the least understood and studied countries of Asia. Its development trajectory is also one of the most interesting, as it moves from state, or perhaps more appropriately subsistence, to market. Based on extensive original research, this book assesses how economic transition and marketisation are being translated into progress (or not) at the local level, and at the resulting impact on poverty, inequality and livelihoods. It concludes that the process of transition in fact contributes to the growth of poverty for some people, and shows how people manage to cope in very unfavourable circumstances.
Jonathan Rigg is a geographer based at the University of Durham and, formerly, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has been working on issues of development in Southeast Asia since the early 1980s, with a focus on agrarian and rural transitions in Thailand and Laos.
