Suchergebnisse

Two key events on the political calendar in Laos in 2006 were the Eighth Party Congress and elections to the Legislative Assembly, leading to the appointment of a new president, prime minister, and cabinet. Neither event would detract from the epithet "secretive" often applied to affairs of state in what is one of the world's five remaining communist nations.

The study examines economic, constitutional, legal and political reforms in Laos and its foreign relations. Successes of the "New Economic Management Mechanism" and family work in agriculture. Vietnam's support for Laos' improving relations with China. Laos' attempts to improve and expand relations with the USA. (DÜI-Sen)

In this article, the author seeks to spell out such economic reforms as have unfolded in the three national economies that constitute Indochina, assessing their prospects and durability. He also seeks to identify ruling party thinking and rationalisations as to the ideological direction posed by the reform. Economic crisis of Vietnam in 1988. No economic reforms carried out in Kampuchea. Vietnam and the USSR as patrons of Laos. (DÜI-Sen)