Drivers of Poverty Reduction in Lao PDR
Poverty in Lao PDR declined from 33.5 percent to 23.2 percent over the 10 year period between 2002/3 and 2012/13. The number of poor people declined by about half a million to 1.35 million in 2013 and Lao PDR has met its MDG target of reducing poverty to below 24 percent by 2015. Improvements in...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Vientiane
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25516130/lao-pdr-poverty-policy-notes-drivers-poverty-reduction-lao-pdr http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23339 |