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Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 November 2017

Amid continuing concerns about public spending and debt levels, Laos’s finance ministry in mid-October enacted its largest foreign bond issue yet. An October report by the…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 November 2020

It is relying on China -- a fellow one party, Marxist-Leninist state -- to help ease its woes. Meanwhile, the ruling Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is preparing for its…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 31 December 2019

Economic problems in Laos.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 July 2023

According to a debt sustainability analysis published by the IMF in May, Laos is in debt distress. Years of rapid growth in borrowing to fund infrastructure development…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 October 2016

The breakthrough agreement with the EU, signed on September 15, came after environmental and consumer lobbied for Indonesia to staunch the world's highest rate of deforestation.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 3 March 2020

Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on South-east Asia.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 March 2016

Construction needs as South-east Asia integrates and develops economically.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 9 February 2024

Thailand is devoting more attention to foreign policy under Srettha. The fallout from the 2006 and 2014 coups adversely affected its foreign relations, but it retains an important…

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