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Laos' government has longstanding plans to turn the landlocked country of 8 million people into "the battery of Southeast Asia" by exporting electricity generated by hydropower dams along the Mekong ...
News Laos » Attapeu » Economy: Laos’ Economic Woes Will Continue In 2024
Most mornings your columnist must scroll through feeds of the latest Southeast Asian news headlines. The feed on Laos is, to put it mildly, beginning to get tiresome. For how many months can you read ...
News Laos » Attapeu » Economy: Laos’s economic reckoning
Laos had the feeling of a nation moving ever closer to an economic reckoning in 2023, even though the outcome is likely to be ambiguous and protracted. While according to official statistics, Laos ...
News Laos » Attapeu » Economy: Why Dollarization Is the Solution to Laos’ Economic Woes
‘There Is Zero Accountability’: India’s ‘Cockroaches’ Question Modi and a Broken System Relieved of the need to keep its currency afloat, the central bank could focus on addressing the country’s ...