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USAID Country Profile: Property Rights and Resource Governance - Lao PDR

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Reports & Research
December, 2011
Laos

OVERVIEW: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is a landlocked country situated in Southeast Asia, bordering Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China and Myanmar. Despite a recent increase in the rate of urbanization and a relatively small amount of arable land per capita, most people in Lao PDR live in rural areas and work in an agriculture sector dominated by subsistence farming.

USAID Country Profile: Property Rights and Resource Governance - Thailand

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Reports & Research
December, 2011
Thailand

OVERVIEW: Thailand is facing the challenges of a transition from lower- to upper-middle-income status. After decades of very rapid growth followed by more modest 5–6% growth after the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, Thailand achieved a per capita GNI of US $3670 by 2008, reduced its poverty rate to less than 10% and greatly extended coverage of social services.

Cerrar la brecha entre hombres y mujeres en la agricultura

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December, 2011
Mexico

El mundo no puede eliminar el hambre sin cerrar la brecha que existe en la agricultura entre hombres y mujeres. Con igual acceso a recursos productivos y servicios como tierra, agua y crédito, las mujeres agricultoras pueden producir entre un 20 y 30 por ciento más de alimentos, suficientes para sacar del hambre a 150 millones de personas.