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Lao People's Democratic Republic Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic underlies debt sustainability analysis. Sensitivity analysis reveals that if the pace of economic reforms falters, the debt burden—high even in the baseline case—could become unsustainable. The low level of...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2005
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Revenue Administration
Public Debt
Debt Service
Public Finance & Taxation
Debt Management
Debts, Public
Debt
Exports And Imports
International Economics
International Lending And Debt Problems
Debts, External
External Debt
National Government Expenditures And Related Policies: General
Expenditure
Sovereign Debt
Taxation, Subsidies, And Revenue: General
Expenditures, Public
Public Finance
Public And Publicly-guaranteed External Debt
Revenue
Lao People's Democratic Republic
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix for the Lao People’s Democratic Republic underlies debt sustainability analysis. Sensitivity analysis reveals that if the pace of economic reforms falters, the debt burden—high even in the baseline case—could become unsustainable. The low level of development and the high share of the subsistence agricultural sector limit the revenue collection capacity. Weak technical capacity and highly fragmented revenue administration are the main structural weaknesses affecting revenue performance
Physical Description:69 pages
ISBN:9781451822540

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