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Article | 7 December 2021
Lao PDR: Setting Vientiane on the Road to Sustainable Transport
Together with ADB and cofinancing partners, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic is setting up a 12.9-kilometer Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system with 28 enclosed stations, and 50 new battery-electric buses.
Project Result / Case Study | 18 October 2021
Power to the Poor Scheme Empowers Rural Women in the Lao PDR
An ADB power transmission project expanded electricity access to more than 24,095 households, including 8,832 poor households in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
News from Country Offices | 22 September 2021
COVID-19 Delays Economic Recovery — ADB
The economic recovery in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic slowed amid a second wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that has led to lockdowns and lower consumer spending, according to a report released...

Books | 14 December 2021
Redefining Strategic Routes to Financial Resilience in ASEAN+3
This book explores how regional financial cooperation could support greater financial resilience in ASEAN+3 amid rapid economic and financial development and technological change.

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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 | 18 October 2021
Power to the Poor Scheme Empowers Rural Women in the Lao PDR
An ADB power transmission project expanded electricity access to more than 24,095 households, including 8,832 poor households in the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
Project Result / Case Study | 29 June 2021
Empowering women in public service in Lao PDR
ADB's support for Lao PDR’s Health Sector Governance Program helped the government move toward its goal of universal health care by 2025 and improved delivery of health services, particularly for the poor, women, and children.
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.