World Bank Group data on private markets and trade in the Lao People's Democratic Republic, last updated 2026-04-28. The dataset aggregates indicators from sources including the Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, Enterprise Surveys, Doing Business, IMF Balance of Payments, and UNCTAD. It is provided in CSV format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking business environment and regulatory ease based on Doing Business indicators mentioned in the description
- Analyzing private investment flows into infrastructure projects based on the Private Participation in Infrastructure database
- Modeling trade integration and its economic impacts using data from the WTO and UNCTAD
- Assessing firm-level characteristics and constraints from Enterprise Surveys data
Strengths
- Data is sourced from authoritative international institutions like the World Bank and IMF
- License is permissive (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and analysis
- Last updated date is precisely recorded as 2026-04-28 05:43:16.553441
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, UNCTAD, WTO
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from official databases including Private Participation in Infrastructure Project Database, Enterprise Surveys, Doing Business Indicators, IMF Balance of Payments and International Financial Statistics
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 05:43:16.553441; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Lao People's Democratic Republic