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  • Sustainable Hydropower Master Plan for the Xe Kong Basin Lao PDR

    The Master Plan was developed by the Natural Heritage Institute (NHI) and a team of international experts in full collaboration with the Government of Lao PDR (GoL). The...

  • Lao Social Indicator Survey (LSIS) 2011-12

    LSIS is a household-based survey that applied the technical frameworks of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). It is the first...

  • Lao PDR - National Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis

    This paper concentrates on the specific deprivations of infants and children in early childhood, in areas such as health and nutrition, and the inter-relation of these. In...

  • Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific: Child Nutrition

    The fourth in the series of Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific policy papers (following Education, Decent Work, Clean Energy), this paper highlights why it is...

  • Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific: Water and Sanitation

    The fifth in the series of Inequality of Opportunity in Asia and the Pacific policy papers (following Education, Decent Work, Clean Energy and Childrens Nutrition) , this paper...

  • Final report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on Laos

    This is the final report of the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, on his visit to the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The report calls...

  • Decision on Trading Rights for Foreign Firms

    This Ministerial Decision, dated June 5th, 2019, defines principles, regulations and measures rrelated to the imports and exports of products by foreign companies.

  • The Laos-EU Voluntary Partnership Agreement: Laos civil society takes stock

    This briefing outlines Civil Societys involvement in the EU-Laos Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA). It explains how...

  • The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project

    The Kunming-Vientiane (K-V) railway, part of the Kunming-Singapore multi-country rail network (or Pan-Asia Railway), is an anchor investment of the Chinese governments Belt and...

  • Report on China-Laos Cooperation Opportunities under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018

    Report on China-Laos Cooperation Opportunities under the Belt and Road Initiative in 2018

  • Statement by Professor Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his visit to Lao PDR, 18-28 March 2019

    On paper, the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic has made great progress in poverty reduction over recent decades. And after more than twenty years of striving to graduate from...

  • Land-use change in a telecoupled world: the relevance and applicability of the telecoupling framework in the case of banana plantation expansion in Laos

    This paper investigates the case of a recent boom in commercial banana cultivation in Luang Namtha Province, Lao PDR, we use a grounded empirical approach starting with the...

  • Tragic Trade-offs: The MRC Council Study and the Impacts of Hydropower Development on the Mekong

    The factsheet summarizes key findings and recommendations of the Council Study in relation to hydropower development in the Lower Mekong Basin. The findings of the Council Study...

  • Offloading Risks & Avoiding Liabilities: How Financial Institutions Consider Hydropower Risks in Laos

    The collapse of Saddle Dam D of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy Dam project in Southern Laos in July 2018 directed a great deal of public attention to the risks and dangers associated...

  • Getting to know "Brou", the 50th ethnic group of Laos, according to the National Assembly

    The National Assenbly has officially adopted "Brou" as an ethnic group in the Lao PDR on December 5th 2018 during the 6th ordinary session of the National Assembly's 8th...

  • Reports submitted by States parties under article 9 of the Convention : International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination : 16th to 18th periodic reports of States parties due in 2009 : Lao People's Democratic Republic

    សំណុំទិន្នន័យនេះមិនមានការពិពណ៌នាទេ


  • Population Census Lao PDR 2005

    This is a publication for population census of Lao PDR for 2005.

  • Provisional Report of the 4th Lao Population and Housing Census 2015

    This report is the first to be generated from the 2015 Population and Housing Census. The main objective of this report is to disseminate some of the key results of the Census...

  • Structural Injustice, Slow Violence? The Political Ecology of a “Best Practice” Hydropower Dam in Lao PDR

    Large areas of the rural Lao landscape are being rapidly transformed by infrastructure development projects. Arguably, it is hydraulic development that is contributing most...

  • Overview of Internal Migration in Lao PDR

    This brief is part of a series of Policy Briefs on Internal Migration in Southeast Asia jointly produced by UNESCO, UNDP, IOM, and UN-Habitat. It provides facts on migration...