Mind the Gap: Grounding Development Finance and Safeguards through Land Compensation on the Laos-China Belt and Road Corridor
China’s vast construction of infrastructure around the world involves not only promises of transnational cooperation, connectivity, and national development, but also local dispossession. Indeed, construction requires large tracts of land, which often leads to the displacement of local people. In Laos, investments since the early-2000s have entailed land loss and questionable safeguard practices. Despite pressure […]