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Laos: Contestation of National Ownership — the Role of Aid Relations and the Case of the Electricity Sector

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Laos is the most aid dependent country in Southeast Asia. The economy depends on a few productive resources, of which the generation of revenue from the electricity sector is one of the most important. The country has a long history of aid intervention, which started with the foundation of a new independent state within a Cold War context. Through this historical trajectory, development aid has become part of the contestation and rivalry in the process of building and legitimising the state.

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  1. Department of Geography and International Development Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark

    Stéphanie Robert & Henrik Secher Marcussen (Professor and Head)

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  1. Chr Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway

    Alf Morten Jerve (Senior Researcher) (Senior Researcher)

  2. Development Economics and former Dean of the Graduate School of Environmental Management, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Yasutami Shimomura (Professor) (Professor)

  3. Aarhus University, Denmark

    Annette Skovsted Hansen (Associate Professor of Japanese history) (Associate Professor of Japanese history)

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Robert, S., Marcussen, H.S. (2008). Laos: Contestation of National Ownership — the Role of Aid Relations and the Case of the Electricity Sector. In: Jerve, A.M., Shimomura, Y., Hansen, A.S. (eds) Aid Relationships in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389175_4

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