ลาวกับความช่วยเหลือระหว่างประเทศ : บทบาทธนาคารโลกในโครงการเขื่อนไฟฟ้าพลังน้ำน้ำเทิน 2

• Main Author: เข็มพร อโนทัย
• Other Authors: ไชยวัฒน์ ค้ำชู
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: Thai
• Published: จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย 2007
• Subjects: เขื่อนน้ำเทิน 2; โรงไฟฟ้าพลังน้ำ; ความช่วยเหลือทางเศรษฐกิจ > ลาว; ความช่วยเหลือทางเทคนิค > ลาว; ธนาคารโลก
• Online Access: https://digiverse.chula.ac.th/Info/item/dc:33161
• Institution: Chulalongkorn University

This thesis aimed to study Lao government s policy of receiving aid from the World Bank through a case study of the Namtheun 2 Hydroelectric Dam Project. It explained the impact of the shift in the world power structure and the economic globalization on Lao government s attempt to reform its economic policy by turning to the western countries and the World Bank for economic assistance after the cold war in order to develop infrastructures of the country. The hypothesis of this thesis is that "Lao government s decision to turn to the western countries through the World Bank for economic aid resulted from the changing of the world power structure and economic globalization". The study found that the shift in the world power structure and economic globalization since the collapse of Soviet Union has significantly affected Laos as small country which had long been dependent on the Soviet assistance. This new international environment necessitated Lao government to open the country wider under new thinking policy. By strengthening the relationship with the western countries in order to seek for cooperation, aid and investment, including technology transfer, especially the World Bank s assistance to replace the economic assistances from the socialist countries in order to exploit untapped rich natural resources such as the building Namtheun 2 Hydroelectric Dam to sell electricity to its neighborhood country (Thailand), thereby generating foreign exchange and hopefully be coming less dependent on foreign aid in the future.