About the Authors

Thiptaiya Sydavong

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiptaiya Sydavong, Daisaku Goto, Keisuke Kawata, Shinji Kaneko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, Department of Planning and Investment, Savannakhet Provincial Government, Savannakhet, Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Daisaku Goto

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiptaiya Sydavong, Daisaku Goto, Keisuke Kawata, Shinji Kaneko

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dgoto@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Keisuke Kawata

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiptaiya Sydavong, Daisaku Goto, Keisuke Kawata, Shinji Kaneko

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Shinji Kaneko

Contributed equally to this work with: Thiptaiya Sydavong, Daisaku Goto, Keisuke Kawata, Shinji Kaneko

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Masaru Ichihashi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.