If rural poverty is relatively dispersed and powerless, global laissez-faire towards an urbanisation without livelihood sets up pathologies of violence, the consequences of which are not difficult to foresee.
At the December meeting of the MRC, Cambodia's minister for water resources, Lim Kean Hor, spoke of the need for "the regional spirit" of the Mekong Agreement (which created the MRC in 1995) to balance "economic development without compromising livelihoods of their peoples and the ecology".
In one example in Bangaeira (Fig. 6c), the surrounding agricultural land, livestock pens and water storage tanks had been destroyed leaving the residents without their livelihoods.
They demonstrated through discussion that the same problems are common for all women without jobs, livelihoods, proper health care, and housing facilities, irrespective of their religious faith.
"If black money is brought back to this country, no one will go hungry, no one will be without a livelihood.
Given today's worsening economic climate, the movie carries an extra weight as newly unemployed workers face the possibility of landing on the street without a livelihood.
Her father died when she was seven, leaving her mother and five children without a livelihood, but her mother managed to keep her home and raise her children through the Depression.
The destruction of more than half of the country's coca-leaf production has left thousands of Quechua and Aymara Indian farmers without a livelihood and depressed the economy in regions where cocaine trafficking once thrived.
