663 datasets found

This web page shows an overview of the global Sustainable Development Goal 1: No poverty, along with the progress and 2030 target.

This web page shows the progress of SDG1 implementation in 2018, the general targets and indicators.

This is a briefing for the 'Brand Lao-for better livelihoods' project, aimed to identify potential profitable Lao products to be exported to the international market, to build i...

This press release points out challenges and successes of Lao PDR as of October 2018 regarding the graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) status.

This web page offers information on the Lao PDR Road Sector Project II, a project to improve climate-resilient road connectivity in selected provinces in Lao PDR.

The web page highlights the development of microfinance in Laos since 1990s as well as the future strategy by the Bank of the Lao PDR.

This is an official UN page showing the progress of SDG 1 implementation in Lao PDR.

The report examines the progress towards the SDGs implementation in Lao PDR and their targets. Despite some gaps in data and indicators, the report identifies patterns of where ...

This briefing note is organized into ten sections. The first section presents information on the country coverage and methodology of the 2018 Statistical Update. The next five s...

The purpose of this study is to clarify the trade flow of agro-forest products and commodities by analyzing commercial activities and private traders in a mountainous region. Th...

The second Lao Census of Agriculture (LCA) in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) was carried out in 2011 and collected crop data for the wet season of 2011 and the d...

This article reviews the catastrophic impacts of dam collapse in the Southern Laos in July 2018 which results in deaths, devastated communities, forced thousands to flee and rip...

Since the early 2000s the Lao government has dramatically increased the number of large-scale land concessions issued for agribusinesses. While studies have documented the socia...

This is a news feature on energy trends in the world. It shows the potential of other energy sources other than hydropowers that usually comes with the risks of undesired disast...

This article features a potential disaster, a land slide, after the construction of Xekaman 3 hydroelectric plant in Laos.

This press release provides information about the the Power Grid Improvement Project Lao PDR, which aims to improve the efficiency and reliability of the country’s electricity d...

Chemicals released into a river by a Chinese-owned banana farm near the Lao capital Vientiane killed over 300 kg of fish in November, prompting warnings by authorities to local ...

On April 12, Radio Free Asia cited local government sources as confirming that Lao government orders to shut down environmentally destructive Chinese-owned banana farms, first r...

This atlas of agriculture presents a comprehensive spatial analysis of the agricultural activities and production patterns in the Lao PDR in 2011, and the respective changes dur...

Since implementation of economic reforms in the Lao PDR, beginning about 1990, rice output has grown less rapidly than population but cash crop and livestock production has outg...