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Author-Name: Jorge Martinez-Vazquez 
Author-Email: jorgemartinez@gsu.edu 
Author-Homepage: https://icepp.gsu.edu/profile/jorge-martinez-vazquez/
Author-Workplace-Name:  International Studies Program. Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage:  https://icepp.gsu.edu/
Author-Name:Juan Luis Gomez 
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Author-Workplace-Name:  Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage:  https://icepp.gsu.edu/
Author-Name: Guevera Yao
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Author-Workplace-Name:  Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Author-Workplace-Homepage:  https://icepp.gsu.edu/
Title: Fiscal Decentralization in the People’s Democratic Republic of Lao
Abstract:The People’s Democratic Republic of Lao (Lao PDR), landlocked between Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, China, and Viet Nam in the core of Southeast Asia, accounts for a population of some 5.8 million over a total surface of 236,800 square kilometers. Latest estimates would place poverty rates at around 39 percent of households (ADB 2002). With an estimated per capita income of $320, Lao PDR stands among the poorest countries in Asia. Inequality, measured by an estimated Gini coefficient of some 0.36 (UNDP 2004) is high for such a low level of income. Lao’s set of basic human development indicators rank the country 133 out 177 states in the Human Development Index (UNDP 2005).
Keywords: Fiscal Decentralization, People’s Democratic Republic of Lao, fiscal reform
Length: 91 pages
Creation-Date: 2006-09-01
File-URL:  http://icepp.gsu.edu/files/2015/03/ispwp0622.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ays:ispwps:paper0622