Hey brother BLM what would you suggest for Laos to do to end the poverty in only few decades like south Korea and north Korea have done it and beyond the imagination from the third world countries to the first. where should Laos start ? If the Singaporean and south Korea could have done it . Is possible that Lao people to do the same as Singaporean and south Korean?

          


           

chiip wrote:

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we are different from all of them geographically : thai, myanmar, cambodia, singapore, malaysia, indo, vietnam china, all these countries have access to the sea, of course we have many mines but it make incomes for only a handfull of people. if we want to end the poverty we should upgrade our standard of education, create more vocational training centers, create more skilled teachers but it come to the start : we need much money to do it.

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typutthana wrote:

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Poverty's coming in many phases, some happen because
of mother natural, war or some just being lazy. Laos
however is different story. I think that poverty in Laos
happen by designed. You see under the true communism
everything belong to the state and no one is to be richer
or poorer every one is the same and because of that the
government is going to do its best to keep the so call
 "wants to be richer" under control. What else can it be?
Laotians are not poor... they just want to have more.
Majority of Laotians especially those who live in the village
are self supported family they grow their own rice, vegetable
pigs, chickens etc..... Those people are not poor o.k!,  their
houses might not be fancy but it's pay for. Now! can you say
the same thing if you happen to live in America? Oh!! loose
your job?.. kiss that new car, house or maybe the wife too
goodbye.


-- Edited by typutthana on Thursday 28th of January 2010 05:26:13 AM

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khonthakek wrote:

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Laos now is like china in 1978. china spent more than 30 years and chinese people became better. but there are lots of people are living in poverty. Laos will spend less than 30 years to make country better and get out of poverty.

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Also commerce is in their blood.

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khonthakek wrote:

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Laos now is like china in 1978. china spent more than 30 years and chinese people became better. but there are lots of people are living in poverty. Laos will spend less than 30 years to make country better and get out of poverty.

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China had Deng Xiaoping to lead them and Hong Kong/Taiwan to show them how to invest and develop.  And a contradictory slogan "To be rich is to be glorious" while keeping the communist governing system.

Also commerce is in their blood.

 

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2010 wrote:

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Rethinking Poverty Reduction
 
Upward trends in inequality and hunger call into question conventional
approaches to poverty reduction. Rather than depending on deregulated
markets to encourage growth, governments should take a central role in
promoting sustainable economic development, argues Jomo Kwame
Sundaram.
 
19th January 2010 - Published by Project Syndicate
 
Last year, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
announced that the number of hungry people in the world increased over
the last decade.
 
In 2008, the World Bank announced a significant decline in the number
of poor people up to the year 2005. But if poverty is defined
principally in terms of the money income needed to avoid hunger, how
can announcements such as these be reconciled?
 
According to the World Bank’s much cited “dollar-a-day” international
poverty line, which was revised in 2008 to $1.25 a day in 2005 prices,
there are still 1.4 billion people living in poverty, down from 1.9
billion in 1981. However, as China has accounted for most of this
decline, there were at least 100 million more people living in poverty
outside China in 2005 than in 1981.
 
In Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, poverty and hunger remain
stubbornly high. International agencies estimate that more than 100
million people fell into poverty as a result of higher food prices
during 2007-2008, and that the global financial and economic crisis of
2008-2009 accounted for an increase of another 200 million. Delayed
job recovery from the global downturn remains a major challenge for
poverty reduction in the coming years.
 
Meanwhile, measurement controversies continue to cast doubt on actual
progress. With the 1995 Social Summit adopting a wider definition of
poverty that includes deprivation, social exclusion, and lack of
participation, the situation today may be even worse than suggested by
a money-income poverty line.
 
Inequality appears to have been on the rise in recent decades at the
international level and in most countries. More than 80% of the
world’s population live in countries where income differentials are
widening. The poorest 40% of the world’s population account for only
5% of world income, while the richest 20% account for 75%.
 
The mixed record of poverty reduction calls into question the efficacy
of conventional approaches. Countries were advised to abandon their
national development strategies in favor of globalization, market
liberalization, and privatization. Instead of producing sustained
rapid growth and economic stability, such policies made countries more
vulnerable to the power of the rich and the vagaries of international
finance and global instability, which has become more frequent and
severe due to deregulation.
 
The most important lesson is the need for sustained rapid growth and
structural economic transformation. Governments need to play a
developmental role, with implementation of integrated policies
designed to support inclusive output and employment growth, as well as
to reduce inequality and promote social justice.
 
Such an approach needs to be complemented by appropriate industrial
investment and technology policies, and by inclusive financial
facilities designed to support them. In addition, new and potentially
viable production capacities need to be fostered through complementary
developmental policies.
 
By contrast, the insistence on minimal government and reliance on the
market led to precipitous declines in public infrastructure
investment, particularly in agriculture. This not only impaired long-
term growth, but also increased food insecurity.
 
Advocates of economic liberalization policies cited the success of the
rapidly industrializing East Asian economies. But none of these
economies had pursued wholesale economic liberalization. Instead,
governments played a developmental role by supporting
industrialization, higher value-added agriculture and services, and
improvement of technological and human capabilities.
 
Structural transformations should promote full and productive
employment as well as decent work, while governments should have
enough policy and fiscal space to enable them to play a proactive role
and to provide adequate universal social protection.
 
The last three decades also saw the divorce of social policies from
overall development strategies as a consequence of the drive for
smaller government. National economic development strategies were
replaced with donor-favored poverty-reduction programs, such as land-
titling, micro-credit, and “bottom of the pyramid” marketing to the
poor.
 
Such fads have not succeeded in significantly reducing poverty. This
is not to deny some positive consequences. For example, micro-credit
has empowered millions of women, while important lessons have been
learned from such schemes’ design and implementation.
 
Meanwhile, universal social programs have improved human welfare much
more than targeted and conditional programs. However, conditional cash-
transfer programs have been quite successful in improving various
human-development indicators.
 
Unfortunately, poverty remains endemic, with more than a billion
people going hungry every day. Urgent action is needed, as the recent
financial and economic crisis, following hard on the heels of the food-
price crisis, is believed to have set back progress on poverty
reduction even further. There are also growing fears that climate
change will more adversely threaten the lives of the poor.
 
The United Nations’ biennial 'Report on the World Social
Situation' (RWSS 2010), entitled 'Rethinking Poverty', makes a
compelling case for rethinking poverty-measurement and poverty-
reduction efforts. For the world’s poor, “business as usual” has never
been an acceptable option. Nor have the popular trends of recent
decades proven to be much better. There will be no real poverty
eradication without equitable and sustainable economic development,
which deregulated markets have proved unable to deliver on their own.
 
Jomo Kwame Sundaram is United Nations Assistant-Secretary-General for
Economic Development.

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