Lao People's Democratic Republic: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

December 8, 2004

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Lao People's Democratic Republic: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2004) accessed September 17, 2024

Summary

This paper on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) on the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) explains macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing. The Lao PDR’s long-term national development goal is to be achieved through sustained equitable economic growth and social development, while safeguarding the country’s social, cultural, economic, and political identity. The government’s sustained effort to eradicate poverty will become a mass mobilization exercise, empowering local communities and providing a coherent framework for mutually supportive actions by all stakeholders.

Subject: Education, Health, Population and demographics, Poverty, Poverty reduction

Keywords: Agricultural land, Asia and Pacific, Community development, CR, Ethnic minority, Global, ISCR, Lao PDR, Mekong, Natural resource, Poverty eradication, Poverty reduction

Publication Details

Pages:

247
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2004/393
Stock No:

1LAOEA0012004
ISBN:

9781451822458
ISSN:

1934-7685

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