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  • The Wealth Divide

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    This article was originally drafted by E. Phoutsavath and Indochina Research for the newsletter “I-Light” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click here. There is a saying in Laos that “the rich don’t go to prison, and the poor don’t go to hospital”. There is a lot of […]

  • Subsistence farmer, Kaum, with her children in Phonethong Village

    Laos: Different Face of Poverty

    On the cusp of Vientiane’s entry into the WTO, a third of its population continues to live below the global poverty line of US$1.25 a day. The author Johannes Loh describes his observations during a research trip to Vientiane as part of the Asian Trends Monitoring team. Laos is a […]