Lao PDR and ADB

In the Spotlight

Article | 4 May 2021
Six ways Southeast Asia strengthened disaster risk management
ADB and development partners are supporting projects that promote disaster risk management solutions for hazard-prone Southeast Asia.
News from Country Offices | 28 April 2021
Macroeconomic Management Key to Recovery in Lao PDR — ADB
The Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s economy is expected to grow at 4.0% in 2021 and 4.5% in 2022, supported by improved agriculture production and sustained power generation, which will offset a slow recovery in services...
Video | 25 March 2021
The Value of Water: Voices of Asia
A diverse set of people from Asia voice their views on the value of water and how this precious resource can be better protected. This World Water Day video is a reminder to examine everyday element to encourage individual and collective action.

Reports | 23 January 2019
Strengthening the Environmental Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific: Stocktake of National Responses to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14, and 15
This report presents the results of a survey of 15 developing countries in Asia and the Pacific regarding Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 12, 14, and 15.

Data: Lao PDR ADB and the Lao PDR: Fact Sheet

Economic Forecast

GDP forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.

Poverty in the Lao PDR

Development indicators for the Lao PDR, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Results of ADB-Supported Operations

Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.

Projects Cofinanced

Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects. Additional funds are provided in the form of official loans and grants, technical assistance, other concessional financing, and commercial cofinancing such as B loans, risk transfer arrangements, parallel loans and equity, guarantee cofinancing, and cofinancing for transactions under ADB’s Trade Finance Program.

Lao PDR: Cofinancing

Project Performance, 2000-2018

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ADB Projects in the Lao PDR

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Project Results

Project Result / Case Study | 4 February 2020
Building Dreams in the Lao PDR
The ADF-assisted Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Tourism Infrastructure for Inclusive Growth Project, has spurred a sharp rise in homestay and other tourism-based businesses in the southern part of Champasak Province, Lao PDR.
Project Result / Case Study | 20 January 2020
Raising Food Standards for Cross-Border Trade in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Ensuring food is safe to eat is a public good. People’s health depends on it, and so does the health of economies.
Project Result / Case Study | 23 December 2019
Addressing Gaps in HIV Prevention in the Greater Mekong Subregion
ADB's $5 million HIV/AIDS prevention project for the Greater Mekong Subregion helped the Lao PDR and Viet Nam reach high risk and vulnerable people in border region economic corridors.