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Lao PDR - Production Forestry Policy : Status and Issues for Dialogue, Volume 1. Main Report

World Bank - 2013

Forestry contributes 7-10 percent of Lao Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 15-20 percent of non-agricultural GDP. In rural areas forest exploitation is one of the few available economic activities, and non-timber products provide more than half of family income. The sector contributes 34 percent...

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Lao PDR - Production Forestry Policy : Status and Issues for Dialogue, Volume 2. Annexes

World Bank - 2013

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Lao PDR : Country Procurement Assessment Report

World Bank - 2013

The Government of Laos has made significant strides over the last eight years in improving its public procurement … to be done to improve the efficiency of public spending at a time when the country of Laos is still experiencing fiscal … Bank is making continued public procurement reform a key part of its Country Assistance Strategy for Laos. The Government …

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Country Economic Memorandum : Realizing the Development Potential of Lao PDR, Volume 1. Summary Overview

World Bank - 2013

To sustain or exceed the 1990s annual average growth rate of 6.3 percent, Lao will need to promote agricultural and manufactured exports, and increase the contribution of natural resources to development. This will require another round of reforms, and supportive public spending. These reforms...

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Country Economic Memorandum : Realizing the Development Potential of Lao PDR, Volume 2. Main Report

World Bank - 2013

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The Economics of Regional Poverty-Environment Programs : An Application for Lao People's Democratic Republic

Buys, Piet; Chomitz, Kenneth; Dasgupta, Susmita; … - 2013

Program administrators are often faced with the difficult problem of allocating scarce resources among regions in a country when interventions are aimed at addressing multiple objectives. One main concern is the tradeoff between poverty reduction and improvement of environmental quality. To...

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Lao PDR Economic Monitor, November 2007

World Bank - 2013

The information presented in the Lao Economic Monitor covers economic developments that have occurred in Lao PDR in the last six months (between May and October 2007). It reports on recent economic performance (Part I), progress in the implementation of the Government's policy reform agenda...

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Sustaining Growth, Maintaining Macroeconomic Stability : Lao PDR Economic Monitor, June 2013

World Bank - 2014

The Lao economy is projected to grow at 8 percent in 2013. The hydropower sector (both completed projects in operation and projects in the construction or development phase), construction, food processing, and services sectors remain the major contributors to this growth. Overall inflation has...

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Country Gender Assessment for Lao PDR : Reducing Vulnerability and Increasing Opportunity

World Bank - 2014

Since the introduction of economic reforms in the mid-1980s, strong growth and development have lifted thousands of poor women and men out of poverty, changing traditional ways of life in Lao PDR. In this environment of change, gender relations, within the family, village and society at large,...

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Pathways to Cleaner Household Cooking in Lao PDR : An Intervention Strategy

World Bank - 2013

The structure of this report reflects the directional organization of the study. Chapter two offers a detailed descriptive analysis of national- and regional-level household fuelwood use, supplemented by a detailed analysis of fuelwood consumption and expenditure among rural and peri-urban...

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