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Meeting regional and global demands for rubber: a key to poverty alleviation in Lao PDR?

Published on 13 March 2009
Citation

Noble, A.; Juntopas, M. (eds.) (2008). Meeting Regional and Global Demands for Rubber: A Key to Poverty Alleviation in Lao PDR? SUMERNET Working Paper. Bangkok: Sustainable Mekong Research Network (SUMERNET).

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This paper discusses the brief history of rubber production in China, Vietnam and northeastern Thailand and hen focuses on the growing expansion of rubber production in Lao PDR that is being driven predominantly by investors from China and Vietnam.