Lao PDR and ADB

In the Spotlight

Video | 18 February 2021
Improving ADB Operations in Fragile and Conflict-affected Situations and Small Island Developing States
ADB is improving our operations to address the specific challenges and requirements of FCAS and SIDS. Addressing the needs of these vulnerable communities is essential for a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific.
Speech | 1 December 2020
Southeast Asia Symposium on Domestic Resource Mobilization for COVID-19 Economic Recovery - Ahmed Saeed
Welcome remarks by Ahmed M. Saeed, ADB Vice-President, Operations 2, at Southeast Asia Symposium on Domestic Resource Mobilization for COVID-19 Economic Recovery, 1 December 2020
News Release | 22 October 2020
MSMEs Key to Southeast Asia's Post-COVID-19 Recovery — ADB
Strengthening the dynamics of MSMEs with innovation and internationalization will be key to revitalizing Southeast Asian economies devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from ADB.

Papers and Briefs | 19 February 2021
An Energy Policy for ASEAN? Lessons from the EU Experience on Energy Integration, Security, and Decarbonization
An energy policy for ASEAN should explicitly pursue a dual transition pathway strategy to yield the best outcome in the energy trilemma.

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, 2010-2018

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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Funding Information

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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.