Socio-economic Transformation and Gender Relations in Lao PDR
Author: Damdouane Khouangvichit
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789197834421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Damdouane Khouangvichit
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9789197834421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carol Ireson-Doolittle
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men and women in rural Lao society, and to highlight the responses of women to those changes.
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2017-11-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9292579940
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has shown remarkable progress by consistently building itself into a market-oriented economy, with economic growth in 1986-2016 averaging around 6.5% per annum. The rapid and sustained growth brought about changes in the structure of output, but did not alter job composition: resource-based products still dominate in industry, low value-added jobs in services, and 65% of the labor force in agriculture. This country diagnostic study provides comprehensive analysis and identifies promising new drivers of growth which the Lao PDR can develop to diversify its production structure and speed up structural transformation.
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2010-02-22
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9264077472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gender inequality holds back not just women but the economic and social development of entire societies. This atlas presents a new measure of gender inequality which examines women’s status according to family situation, physical integrity, son preference, civil liberties and ownership rights.
Author: World Bank;World Trade Organization
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2020-09-04
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1464815569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Trade can dramatically improve women’s lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women’s bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between trade and gender, it is essential to assess the potential impact of trade policy on both women and men and to develop appropriate, evidence-based policies to ensure that trade helps to enhance opportunities for all. Research on gender equality and trade has been constrained by limited data and a lack of understanding of the connections among the economic roles that women play as workers, consumers, and decision makers. Building on new analyses and new sex-disaggregated data, Women and Trade: The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality aims to advance the understanding of the relationship between trade and gender equality and to identify a series of opportunities through which trade can improve the lives of women.
Author: Latdavone Khamphouvong
Publisher: ศูนย์บริหารงานวิจัย สำนักงานมหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่
Published: 2019-02-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 6163983874
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1986, Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) put into effect it's New Economic Mechanism (NEM) in its bid for modernization and development. With this national policy came the conversion of a predominantly agricultural and subsistence-based economy into one focused on commodity-driven production. The country's integration into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and its signing of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) made official its integration into the regional and internationnal economy. The once state-planned, socialist economy was restructured into an open, liberalized one. One sector that has experienced marked growth is manufacturing, specifically the garment industry, Domestic and foregin-owned garment factories established beginning in the earyl 1990s now have Laos exporting 80% of its garment products to European Union (EU) nations.
Author: Lemarchand, Guillermo A.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2018-05-21
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9231002716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Boike Rehbein
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-21
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 135185934X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the past decade, Laos’ exposure to global capitalism has resulted in extensive economic and social transformations. Precapitalist social structures both persist and are transformed into a particular configuration of classes. This entails increasing social inequality, a widening range of habitus and new forms of ethos. This book pursues the theoretical aim of shedding light on the old question raised by Max Weber about the relation between capitalism, ethos and society. The empirical study consists of a description of the social structures, their embodiment in the habitus and world-views in Laos against the background of a critical revision of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology. To achieve these aims, the author develops a qualitative methodology as neither Weber nor Bourdieu explained how to empirically study habitus and ethos. The empirical material for the book was gathered over a period of more than five years and comprises several hundred life-course interviews in all sections of Lao society as well as a representative quantitative survey. The author argues that precapitalist social structures persist and continue to shape the social fabric of contemporary Laos. At the same time, they are transformed by global and local capitalism. The book shows how the hierarchies contained in each structure shape the habitus of the Lao population and how these in turn influence the development of a capitalist and a religious ethos. The argument makes use of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology and adapts it to the setting of Laos by introducing new as well as indigenous concepts. While social structure, habitus and beliefs are subject to a capitalist transformation and unification, the newly emerging classes and milieus are not copies of Western forms but retain their local history. Filling a gap in the literature on Laos and offering new perspectives on core concepts such as habitus, class, lifestyle, work ethic and its religious underpinnings, this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of Sociology, Religious Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies.