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This book provides a cross-sectoral, multi-scale assessment of development-directed investments in the wider Mekong Region. The wider Mekong Region includes Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and the Chinese Province of Yunnan, see Fig. 1.1. Evidence highlights a limited set of critical dynamics, including human migration, natural resource flows and increasing levels of private and State financial investments generate a high level of connectivity between these countries (Contreras 2007; Dore 2003; Harima et al. 2003; Theeravit 2003).

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    Workshop participants (10–14 January 2011): Lilao Bouapao, Thierry Facon, Tira Foran, Kate Lazarus, Robert Mather, Andrew Noble, Lu Xing, Juha Sarkkula, Pech Sokhem, and Pham Quang Tu.

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Smajgl, A., Ward, J. (2013). Mekong Region Connectivity. In: Smajgl, A., Ward, J. (eds) The Water-Food-Energy Nexus in the Mekong Region. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6120-3_1

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