Chinese economic development strategies need fine-tuning.
China’s Belt and Road Hits Bumps in Laos
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Great Gamble on the Mekong
A proposed dam on the Mekong River would provide energy for the region, but at a significant environmental cost.
TRIPping Up Least Developed Countries on Medicines, Green Tech, and Textbooks?
It is hard to argue that translating an economics book into Swahili for use in Tanzania, making generic AIDS medications for people in Haiti, or adapting climate technologies so they will work in the tropical climate of Laos, are unjust “piracy” efforts to be guarded against.
Hillary Clinton in Laos, Where Our Past Lies Buried
The United States continues to give short shrift to removing unexploded bombs from Laos.
A Bomb-Free Future for Laos
Almost 40 years have passed since the end of the secret U.S. bombing campaign over Laos, and U.S.-Lao relations have made impressive strides. On her trip to Laos, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should reaffirm America’s commitment to cleaning up the deadly mess it left behind.
The Curse of Cluster Bombs
Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia known as “the most bombed country on earth,” fittingly hosted an international disarmament conference in November 2010. This was a follow-up to an Oslo conference in 2008 when 94 nations signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), an international treaty to ban all cluster weapons following in the footsteps of the global campaign to ban landmines which came into force in 1999.
Dialogue on Laos and Vietnam
Ronald Bruce St John and Andrew Wells-Dang | December 28, 2006
Laos: Power Trumps Reform
There is broad agreement today that a market economy works well within a Western democratic system, but there is much less consensus over whether it can function effectively in an authoritarian state. The contemporary political economy of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) provides an excellent case in point. The Lao experience since the Communist takeover in 1975 suggests real limits to a development model that combines single party rule with market economics.
Shafting the Vets
ÂWar is hell, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman famously said 14 years after the end of the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history. ÂIt is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation.Â