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Laos and the Resource Curse

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Oct 22, 2010
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Laos, a landlocked and obscure country of 6.8 million poverty-stricken people, is seeking to develop its way into prosperity through massive investment in dams, mines and plantations, hoping for jobs, rising incomes and revenues to end poverty.

But development, a great deal of it by Chinese and other foreign interests, is "tearing at the environment, bre…

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