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The Voluntary National Review underscores the commitment of the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It summarizes ...

The UNODC Regional Office for Southeast Asia and the Pacific recently undertook legislative reviews in the above four countries to examine the extent to which domestic legislati...

Europe and Southeast Asia are the only regions in the world to have adopted comprehensive legally binding anti-trafficking conventions: the Council of Europe Convention on Actio...

Various terms are used to characterize fishers knowledge. Here we use situated fishers knowledge to refer to knowledge about long-distance fish migrations held by ethnic Lao fis...

This booklet explains about the traditions and cultures of Thaen ethnic group

The Nam Ou Basin Profile is a collective effort among various stakeholders at the central, provincial, district, and village levels. The main objective of the Nam Ou River Basin...

This report discusses options for identifying and developing forest monitoring methodologies that can estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from forest degradation. This is...

Undernutrition levels in Lao PDR remain among the highest in the world, despite both rapid economic growth and a significant decline in poverty over the past years. Concerns abo...

Economic growth in Lao PDR is projected to rebound to 6.5 percent in 2019, up from 6.3 percent in 2018. This pick up is expected to be driven by growth of the construction secto...

Rice is Lao PDR's biggest agricultural commodity in terms of farmers involved in production, cropland area allocated, and food consumption. Rice also generates important economi...

Sixteenth in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2019 covers 11 areas of business regulation. Ten of these areas - starti...

The National EFA Action Plan contains the Government’s policy and strategic framework for action for basic education which covers development targets and programmes for six basi...

This policy note provides an overview of government health financing in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (PDR), with an added focus on health center financing. The note summa...

The webpage provides an overview of the safety, health, and wellbeing of workers in Lao PDR.

The World Bank Group conducted face-to-face interviews with top managers and business owners of 368 enterprises in Lao PDR from January 2016 through June 2016. The Enterprise Su...

Redefining Health through Cleaner Energy Solutions. In the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic household air pollution from the incomplete combustion of solid fuels is the top healt...

Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) has a comparative advantage in natural capital, which has fueled economic growth averaging around 8 percent per annum since 2000. The ...

This Progress Report aims to capture the situation of the Lao PDR with regard to the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals since 1990 up to the present time (2013),...

This paper is a briefing on Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the Lao PDR, 2010-2014.

The report examines climate impacts on livelihoods and is intended to be used as a tool to identify adaptation options for the most vulnerable livelihoods in Lao PDR.