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Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific: Child Nutrition
The fourth in the series of Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific policy papers (following Education, Decent Work, Clean Energy), this paper highlights why it is imp...
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Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific: Water and Sanitation
The fifth in the series of Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific policy papers (following Education, Decent Work, Clean Energy and Childrens Nutrition) , this paper ...
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Final report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on Laos
This is the final report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, on his visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The report call...
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The Laos-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement: Laos civil society takes stock
This briefing outlines Civil Societys involvement in the EU-Laos Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). It explains how thei...
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The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project
The Kunming-Vientiane (K-V) railway, part of the Kunming-Singapore multi-country rail network (or Pan-Asia Railway), is an anchor investment of the Chinese governments Belt and ...
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Report on China-Laos Cooperation Opportunities under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018
Report on China-Laos Cooperation Opportunities under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018
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Statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019
On paper, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic has made great progress in poverty reduction over recent decades. And after more than twenty years of striving to graduate from lea...
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Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos
This paper investigates the case of a recent boom in commercial banana cultivation in Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR, we use a grounded empirical approach starting with the obs...
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Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong
The factsheet summarizes key findings and recommendations of the Council Study in relation to hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin. The findings of the Council Study...
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Offloading Risks & Avoiding Liabilities: How Financial Institutions Consider Hydropower Risks in Laos
The collapse of Saddle Dam D of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam project in Southern Laos in July 2018 directed a great deal of public attention to the risks and dangers associated wit...
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Reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention : International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination : 16th to 18th periodic reports of States parties due in 2009 : Lao People's Democratic Republic
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Population Census Lao PDR 2005
This is a publication for population census of Lao PDR for 2005.
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Provisional Report of the 4th Lao Population and Housing Census 2015
This report is the first to be generated from the 2015 Population and Housing Census. The main objective of this report is to disseminate some of the key results of the Census w...
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Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR
Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most si...
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Overview of Internal Migration in Lao PDR
This brief is part of a series of Policy Briefs on Internal Migration in Southeast Asia jointly produced by UNESCO, UNDP, IOM, and UN-Habitat. It provides facts on migration sit...
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IOM and Labour Migration: Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
This fact sheet gives an overview on Special Economic Zones in Lao PDR. It also reflects lessons from actual site visits by International Organization for Migration.
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Results of Population and Housing Census 2015
This report consists of the 2015 population and housing census results, contained detailed and disaggregated information on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the...
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Strategy on climate change of the Lao PDR
The document reports about the key strategic priorities toward climate change in Laos. These include adaptation and mitigation on different sectors such as agriculture and food ...
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10-facts-on-biodiversity-conservation-in-laos
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US Department of State fact sheet - Laos
Short fact sheet on United States relations with Laos, US assistance to Laos, bilateral economic relations and Laos' membership in international organisations.