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New Laos Directory Available
The directory of NGOs working in Lao PDR, the last to arrive in year 2000, is smaller than its counterparts from Cambodia and Vietnam, but is the best designed of the three. The first update since 1967 is the product of international NGOs working in partnership with the NGO Section in the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Fifty-six international NGOs are described in 114 pages in a consistent style and clear layout. Each organization’s description is accompanied by a map of Laos showing the provinces in which its programs are carried out. Fifty-eight pages are devoted to provincial summaries, which not only list the NGOs working there by district, but also provide basic demographic data about the province and graphs which illustrate the sectoral and district distribution among NGOs working there. Thirty-four pages offer an analysis by sector and subsector in each province and indicate what percentage of external assistance comes from INGOs in that sector.
A final section includes useful phone numbers and addresses of Ministries, Embassies, public services and UN agencies, as well as a copy of the NGO decree of the government which provides the legal framework and registration procedures for international groups.
A regrettable absence are international educational institutions which are working with Lao universities. Also missing are organizations which have programs in Laos but no resident staff.
232 pp.; $30 plus 10% for priority shipping within the US (order form inside back cover)
Migration, Markets and Social Change in the Highlands of Vietnam
Published as a special issue by Asia-Pacific Viewpoint, (2000, vol.41, no.1) edited by Sarah Turner (Otago, NZ), Andrew Hardy (NUS, Singapore) and Jean Michaud. This publication stems from the last NWRCSEAS-CCSEAS conference in Vancouver (Oct. 1999) where all papers were initially presented, before being re-worked for this refereed publication. All papers are based on original research conducted recently in Vietnam and can be of interest to researchers and academics working on highland social change, migration and development in Vietnam, both in the north and in the central highlands. The disciplinary focus is on Human Geography and Social Anthropology.This issue can be ordered from the department of Geography, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand, or directly from Blackwell Publishers, 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, UK.
French and Japanese Economic Relations with Vietnam since 1975
Henrich Dahm
This study compares the strategies of France and Japan in trying to win economic and political influence in the newly emerging Vietnam. 162pp. 1992 University of Hawaii Press
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Worries: Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune
Tine Gammeltoft
The first ethnography on health-related issues to come out of contemporary Vietnam, this volumne is a study of women’s lives in a rural commune in Vietnam’s Red River delta.
288 pp. 1999 University of Hawaii Press
Profit and Poverty in Rural Vietnam: Winners and Losers of a Dismantled Revolution
Rita Liljestrom, Eva Lindskog, Nguyen Van Ang, and Vuong Xuan Tinh
This work examines at the household level the construction and dismantling of Vietnam’s socialist economy and its impact on the agricultural sector. Following since 1987 the change in four areas of the mountains of northern Vietnam, it shows the impact of the agricultural revolution following the land laws of 1988 and 1993 and the Doi Moi policy.
288 pp. 1999 University of Hawaii Press
New Annotated List of North American Not-For-Profit Organizations Working in Indochina.
The annotated list is intentionally more skeletal about each organization than those published in the region, but seeks to provide a description of the whole not for profit sector from the US and Canada which is working in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. It is available at the FRD website: www.usirp.org and from FRD as a printed resource. Organizations are invited to check the accuracy of their listing. Those which are not included are asked to complete and return the accompanying form to insure their addition to the directory and the site.
91 pp.; $10 plus 10% for 1st class shipping with the US (order form inside back cover)