Aid and development

With a growing population and rapidly developing and urbanizing socio-economy requiring investment in human resources and infrastructure, the calls on public finances in Laos are larger than ever.These needs are spread across all the sectors you’d find in most countries, along with some particular challenges like unexploded ordnance (UXO).More. ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos has expressed its support for joint policy studies to promote development cooperation in the Lancang-Mekong sub-region that can create mutual benefit for member countries.Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs Khamphao Eunthavanh expressed the government’s view in her address at the ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos and the US celebrated the successful completion of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) LUNA II project to boost Lao trade facilitation and economic integration at a ceremony in Vientiane on Friday.The event, co-chaired by Minister of Industry and ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – The Japanese government has agreed to provide grant aid of over 76 billion kip (US$8.9 million) for four projects of country development.A signing ceremony for the Exchange of Notes on Four Grant Aid Projects was held at the Ministry of Foreign ...

Laos has made impressive progress in reducing poverty, but still has a long way to go, as one quarter of the population still lives below the poverty line, according to a U.N. official visiting the Southeast Asian country this month.During an interview with RFA’s Lao ...

(KPL) With the aim of strengthening sub-national planning, coordination, monitoring and budgeting for better results for children, a workshop was organized on Friday in Savannakhet province by the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, and the Savannakhet Provincial Department of ...

SAVANNAKHET, Laos (Vientiane Times/ANN) – President Bounnhang Vorachit has impressed upon authorities in Xepon and Thapangthong districts of Savannakhet province the need to tackle antisocial behaviour, such as drug abuse, in order to maintain social order.More ...

VIENTIANE (Vientiane Times/ANN) – Laos needs to focus on five key factors this year to support stable and sustainable economic growth, the National Institute for Economic Research (NIER) has suggested.The first focus will be the stricter implementation of government policy to improve regulations and strategic ...

WASHINGTON, March 14, 2019 – Lao PDR will benefit from US$72 million in new financing, under three projects approved today by the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors, which focus on reducing malnutrition in children and improving public resource use and service delivery.More ...

The government is conducting regulatory impact assessment (RIA) training for policy-makers working at the national and provincial levels.The training is taking place in Vientiane from March 13-15. Its goal is to ensure that Laos develops a well-functioning regulatory system which protects the community and the ...