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Expert briefing
Publication date: 26 June 2015

Alongside loans, the sale will support energy infrastructure development, part of Vientiane's national development and economic growth plans; Laos has also started preparatory…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 April 2021

Phankham Viphavanh succeeds him as prime minister. The country’s reshuffled leadership is entrusted with handling complicated ties with China and Vietnam -- each of which looks to…

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: 21 December 2023

The theme it has chosen for its chairmanship is ‘enhancing connectivity and resilience’. The reference to ‘resilience’ is apt, as Laos is attempting to manage severe economic…

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…

Executive summary
Publication date: 19 August 2016

LAOS: Fiscal trouble could hit development

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 August 2016

Special Economic Zones in South-east Asia.

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