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  • The World Bank, Hydropower-based Poverty Alleviation and Indigenous Peoples: On-the-Ground Realities in the Xe Bang Fai River Basin of Laos

    Author(s)
    Manorom, Kanokwan
    Baird, Ian G
    Shoemaker, Bruce
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Manorom, Kanokwan
    Year published
    2017
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    Abstract
    The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos has – despite being considered a model project by its main international supporter, the World Bank – had major social and environmental impacts on downstream areas in the Xe Bang Fai (XBF) River Basin. In this article we argue that NT2 has been especially damaging to ethnic Brou Indigenous Peoples, and particularly Brou women, who although they have not been passive victims and have demonstrated a certain level of agency, have nevertheless been proportionally more impacted, and have been generally less able to take advantage of project compensation. In its expedient approach ...
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    The Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project (NT2) in Laos has – despite being considered a model project by its main international supporter, the World Bank – had major social and environmental impacts on downstream areas in the Xe Bang Fai (XBF) River Basin. In this article we argue that NT2 has been especially damaging to ethnic Brou Indigenous Peoples, and particularly Brou women, who although they have not been passive victims and have demonstrated a certain level of agency, have nevertheless been proportionally more impacted, and have been generally less able to take advantage of project compensation. In its expedient approach to project development, the project developers, including the World Bank, have failed to even recognize that thousands of ethnic Brou people living in the XBF Basin qualify as Indigenous. This has led to a number of adverse consequences, including increasing the vulnerability of these communities to induced internal resettlement. Much more needs to be done to address the plight of those impacted by NT2 in the XBF River Basin, including Indigenous Peoples and especially Indigenous women.
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    Journal Title
    Forum for Development Studies
    Volume
    44
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2016.1273850
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Human Geography
    Political Science
    Social Sciences
    Development Studies
    Indigenous peoples
    Laos
    hydropower dams
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/400671
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