Prepared for the Multi-stakeholder Consultation in Lao PDR.
SCP in Lao PDR is emerging simultaneously as the country’s production and consumption volumes start to speed up due to the rapid economic growth. Moreover, SCP is linked with livelihood development, meeting basic needs and poverty eradication, development of a sustainable private sector for sustainable economic development while diversifying the economy away from natural resources utilisation, and enhancing the competitiveness of the private sector, especially SMEs in the global economy.
