BRI, China, covid-19, debt, Global Development, Laos
Sims, K. 2021, ‘Lao PDR in 2020: Pandemic, Debt and Resource Extraction’, in Daljit Singh and Malcolm Cook (ed), Southeast Asian Affairs 2021, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore.
Development Studies, Global Development, Human Rights, Laos, Sombath Somphone, Thinking and Working Politically, TWP
Sims, Kearrin (2021) ‘Risk navigation for Thinking and Working Politically: the work and disappearance of Sombath Somphone’, Development Policy Review, 39(4), 604-620
Bangladesh, climate change, Development Studies, Global Development
Roy, S. and Sims, K. (2020) ‘Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Bangladesh: The need for community-based approaches’, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, online view
Sims, K. 2020, ‘China’s development contribution to Laos: Beyond growth and connectivity’, in Don Emmerson (ed), The Deer and the Dragon, Stanford University Press, California.
Sims, Kearrin (2020) ‘The ADB and AIIB: Cooperation, Competition and Contestation’ in Max Kelly, Viktor Jakupec and Jonathan J. Makuwira, Rethinking Multilateralism in Foreign Aid: Beyond the Neoliberal Hegemony, Routledge, UK., pp. 145-159.
Sims, K., 2017, ‘More growth, less freedom: Charting international development pathways in Lao PDR’, in Brendan Howe (ed.), The Securitization of Governance in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, UK.
Book Review – Changing Lives in Laos: Society, Politics, and Culture in a Post-Socialist State. Edited by Vanina Bouté and Vatthana Pholsena. Singapore: NUS Press, 2017. Softcover: 457pp.
Sims, K. and Winter, T., 2016, ‘In the slipstream of development: World Heritage and development-induced displacement in Laos’, in Colin Long and Sophia Labadi (eds.), Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: International Frameworks, National and Local Governance, Routledge, UK, pp. 23-36.
Community-oriented learning, Culture & Development, Development Studies, Global Development, Laos, Participatory Development, Post-2015, Sombath Somphone
Sims, K., 2015, ‘Culture, community-oriented learning and the post-2015 development agenda: a view from Laos’, Third World Quarterly, 36(10): 1922-1943.
Sims, K., 2015 ‘Uneven geographies of transnational capitalism in Laos’, in Jeb Sprague (ed.), Globalization and Transnational Capitalism in Asia and Oceania, Routledge, UK, pp. 199-213.
Asian Development Bank, Development Studies, Global Development, Laos, Neoliberalism, Poverty Alleviation
Sims, K., 2015, ‘The Asian Development Bank and the production of poverty: Neoliberalism, technocratic modernization and land dispossession in the Greater Mekong Subregion’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 36(1): 112-126
Sims, Kearrin. (2013) ‘Raising Homes for a Rising Asia: Development-induced-displacement and Regionalism in Laos’, LEWI Working Paper Series, David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University.
