Lao People's Democratic Republic: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
IMF Staff Country Reports, October 18, 2012
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- Lao People's Democratic Republic: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation
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Bibliographic details
- Published: October 18, 2012
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475513196.002
Executive summary and key finding
- Against the backdrop of generally sound policies and abundant natural resources, Lao P.D.R. has made impressive progress in developing its economy and reducing poverty.
- The key challenge going forward is to ensure that economic policy frameworks stay ahead of the curve to achieve sustainable and broad-based growth.
Areas of substantive analysis (as identified in source metadata)
- Debt sustainability
- Debt sustainability analysis
- External debt
- Public and publicly-guaranteed external debt
- Public debt
Keywords and thematic focus
- anchor inflation expectation
- Asia and Pacific
- authority
- BOL securities
- CR
- debt
- Debt sustainability
- Debt sustainability analysis
- deficit
- GDP
- Global
- government meeting
- ISCR
- Lao authorities
- liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident
- Mekong
- Public and publicly-guaranteed external debt