Tiny, Poor, Land-Locked, Indebted, but Growing: Lessons for Late Reforming Transition Economies from Laos

Bird, Kelly; Hill, Hal

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Tiny, Poor, Land-Locked, Indebted, but Growing: Lessons for Late Reforming Transition Economies from Laos

Date

2010

Authors

Bird, Kelly

Hill, Hal

Publisher

Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

There are few countries where "initial conditions" are as unfavourable as those of Laos. It is a very poor, least developed country. It is land-locked, sharing its international borders with five neighbours. It has the world's highest per capita stock of