PON SOUVANNASENG

"The episode shows how developing countries are stuck between two undesirable options for development financing, Souvannaseng said. With long-term, low-cost multilateral lenders like the World Bank, she said, the “the bureaucratic process … to get money — it’s long, it’s tedious, a lot of them find it very humiliating.” But the “high risk, high reward” international bond market, while a quick source of money, “is first and foremost concerned with yield, not with developmental aims,” she said."

My article manuscript, ‘Fast Finance & the Political Economy of Catastrophic Dam Collapse in Lao PDR’ is now out in Pacific Affairs Vol. 97, Issue..

I was recently quoted in a CNN article on the Chinese built Lao railway, accessible here: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/25/travel/china-south-east-asia-travel-train-infrastructure-intl-hnk CategoriesNews

On March 14th I was a guest panelist at the Asia Society in NYC for a discussion on Himalayan Water Politics (with a comparative look at the Mekong) with..

On International River’s Day (March 14th) – I have the honor of joining Farwa Aamer, ASPI Director of South Asia Initiatives and Li Shuo, ASPI..

Had the honor of traveling with our delegation of Mansfield-Luce Asia Scholars in Thailand, Vietnam, and further visits in South Korea and Singapore as part..

What a pleasure to reunite with 2019 APSA Asia Scholars at the Bangkok publication workshop in 2022! I was part of the Political Economy group..

I’ll be at AAS2022 in person presenting a paper with wonderful co-panelists and specialists on the Mekong and its cultural, social, ecological and political dimensions! ..