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Building Export Competitiveness in Laos : Summary Report
World Bank - 2012
The basic framework for the background study on building export competitiveness in Laos is based on the National Growth … priority area. Laos needs an efficient banking system to achieve the government's development goals and meet the competitive … competitiveness is a major impediment to attracting investment to Laos. This study addresses the main elements of the reform agenda to …
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Institutions taking root : building state capacity in challenging contexts
Huybens, Elisabeth (contributor);  … - 2014
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The economics of regional poverty-environment programs : an application for Lao People's Democratic Republic
Chomitz, Kenneth M. (contributor) - 2004
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Historically planned economies : A guide to the data
1993
Most economies with a legacy of central planning are changing in fundamental ways. With the rapid economic, social, and political changes in these economies an update of the first edition of Historically Planned Economies (HPEs): A Guide to the Data, has become necessary. In addition to...
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Lao PDR - Investment Climate Assessment : Policies to Promote Growth in the Non-Resource Sectors
World Bank - 2012
The second Lao PDR investment climate assessment identifies the key constraints of the country's non-resource sector firms. This Assessment summarizes the results of a national survey conducted in late-2009 and draws on extensive interviews with policymakers and practitioners. Survey results...
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Lao PDR - Civil Service Pay and Compensation Review : Attracting and Motivating Civil Servants
World Bank - 2012
Lao PDR is at a point on its development trajectory where strategic attention to administrative performance is crucial. An efficient and high-performing civil service, with the compensation and human resource management systems to attract and motivate qualified personnel, will be essential to...
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Lao People's Democratic Republic - Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) : Public Financial Management Assessment
World Bank - 2012
The purpose of the Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment is to provide the Government of Lao PDR (GOL) with a concise, standardized, objective, indicator-led assessment of the country's public financial management (PFM) systems to provide a benchmark against which to...
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Lao People's Democratic Republic - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures : Enhancing Trade, Food Safety, and Agricultural Health
World Bank - 2012
investment and to expand its foreign trade. In recent years Lao PDR has been successful in rapidly expanding its export and …
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Lao People's Democratic Republic : Policy, Market and Agriculture Transition in the Northern Uplands
World Bank - 2012
This report presents policy, market, and agriculture transition in the Northern Uplands of Lao People's Democratic Republic aims to contribute to such a dialogue by providing: (a) a policy-relevant typology of the structural characteristics and transition patterns of the principal small-holder...
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Lao PDR : Public Expenditure Review Integrated Fiduciary Assessment
World Bank - 2012
The key challenge of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is to make full use of both physical and human assets to accelerate growth and improve the living standards of the population. To achieve the country's development goals, laid out in the sixth National Socioeconomic Development...
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