Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

Reaching across the Mekong: local socioeconomic and gender effects of Lao-Thai crossborder linkages

Following trade agreements between ASEAN states, the expansion of cross-border roads and bridges between Laos and Thailand has linked local communities and distant markets in increasingly diverse ways. Although the planned impacts of such integration are expected to be beneficial, effects on the ground vary, as witnessed at a sleepy outpost in Xayabury and a more vibrant crossing in Savannakhet. This paper discusses first the physical setting of such border facilities, and then explores their actual local effects on traders’ activities, highlighting changes in gender roles and perceptions of entrepreneurial competition participated in by women in the two research sites.

Alternative title
Die Errungenschaften jenseits des Mekong: lokale sozioökonomische und Gender-Effekte der grenzüberschreitenden Verbindungen zwischen Laos und Thailand
ISSN
1868-4882
Extent
Seite(n): 3-25
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 30(3)

Subject
Wirtschaft
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Internationale Beziehungen
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Volkswirtschaftslehre
grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit
sozioökonomische Entwicklung
Grenzgebiet
Südostasien
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Frau
Gender
Laos
Geschlechtsrolle
Thailand
Entwicklungsland
deskriptive Studie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Gomez Jr., José Edgardo
Southiseng, Nittana
Walsh, John
Sapuay, Samuel
Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Deutschland
(when)
2011

URN
urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-4-4732
Last update
21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST

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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Associated

  • Gomez Jr., José Edgardo
  • Southiseng, Nittana
  • Walsh, John
  • Sapuay, Samuel

Time of origin

  • 2011

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