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! Join us Friday, 25 March at 11:30am in Room 312, Hawaii Convention Center for our panel on: ‘C04: Change, Contestation and Hydropower Dam Development in the Lower Mekong River Basin’.
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"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."
