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aseas-8279	Ponce, Floramante SJ	Beyond Debt-Trap Narratives: How the Lao State Manoeuvres the Hybrid Governance of a Chinese Hydropower Project	2025	26	.pdf	application/pdf	11981	567	47	NGOs/CSOs and other environmental publics – stakeholders that have his- torically expressed concerns over the basin-wide harm of massive dams on and in behalf of affected communities – had no engagement in the project owing to the ambivalence of the NNua1’s private sector actors and state officials towards them in particular; the Lao state’s inflexible regulatory framework for civil society groups in general. This contradicts the claims of Lao consultants and staff I spoke with that they studied carefully the dam construction’s social and environmental risks and their impacts on livelihood and food sources.	cache/aseas-8279.pdf	txt/aseas-8279.txt