Doing Business in the ASEAN Countries

Chapter 5

Laos

Source: Adapted from Wikipedia 2010d. Retrieved October 22, 2010, from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Location_Laos_ASEAN.svg

Country at a Glance

Note. Adapted from Central Intelligence Agency: The World Factbook 2010e. Retrieved August 24, 2010, from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/la.html

General Background

Laos is the one of the few remaining communist countries in the world, but it too has transited to a market economy like its neighbor Vietnam.¹ It is the only landlocked ...