All publications: Lao People's Democratic Republic

Labour migration

Regional guidelines on the return and reintegration of migrant workers participating in the Employment Permit System of the Republic of...

Since 2012, the ILO-Korea Partnership Programme labour migration component has focused on migration and development. Research and national and regional workshops have focused on return and reintegration, leading to the development and adoption of...

Labour migration

Smart remittance guide for workers migrating to the Republic of Korea

The Smart Remittance Guide has been prepared for migrant workers to inform them of the procedures to send remittances from the Republic of Korea through regular channels. The purpose of distributing this information is to improve migrant workers’...

Skills, access to finance, regulatory reform, and ASEAN regional integration: Challenges and policy directions for enterprises (2016)

Studies indicate that a variety of challenges hinder further inflow of investment into the People’s Democratic Republic of Lao. Lack of skills and limited human resources, limited access to financial services and a discouraging regulatory...

Improving the Garment Sector in Lao PDR: Compliance through Inspection and Dialogue Project: Project fact sheet

The project aims to improve working conditions, productivity and competitiveness in the Lao garment manufacturing sector by strengthening the national labour inspection system to ensure compliance with national labour laws in line with...

Tripartite action to protect migrants from labour exploitation (ASEAN TRIANGLE) (Final evaluation Summary)

Project: RAS/12/01/CAN - Evaluation Consultant: Theo van der Loop

TRIANGLE II Quarterly Briefing Note: Lao PDR (January - March 2016)

While economic growth and especially foreign direct investment in Lao People’s Democratic Republic has been increasing, poverty reduction has been slower than other ASEAN Members states. GDP growth has averaged seven per cent over the past decade,...

Working paper

Assessing the gender pay gap in Asia's garment sector

This paper presents the gender pay gap in the garment, textile and footwear industry in nine developing Asian economies – Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.

Labour migration

Managing labour mobility: Opportunities and challenges for employers in the ASEAN region

This publication series documents and consolidates the outputs of the regional meetings to better inform employers’ activities, and summarizes the position of employers’ on the priority issues on labour migration in the ASEAN region. It gives the...

Guide on measuring migration policy impacts in ASEAN

This Guide offers policy-makers and administrators a guide for evaluating how labour migration policies work in practice, based on documented experiences in ASEAN and other parts of the world. It starts with assessing the outcomes of labour market...

Compilation of assessment studies on technical vocational education and training (TVET): Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, the...

This publication is a compilation of assessment studies on technical vocational education and training (TVET) development in Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Mongolia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam. It provides a critical analysis and...

Employers have strong, independent and representative organization (Outcome 9 - 2016) - Final evaluation (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project: GLO/14/59/NOR, GLO/14/73/SID, and RAS/14/58/NOR - Evaluation Consultant: David Irwin

Protection of migrant workers in the recruitment and third party employment process: International standards and guiding principles given...

This publication discusses the issue of protection of migrant workers in the employment process, in particular the international standards and guiding principles given by the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181) and Private...

GMS TRIANGLE Project fact sheet

The Tripartite Action to Protect Migrants Workers from Labour Exploitation (the GMS TRIANGLE project) aims to strengthen the formulation and implementation of recruitment and labour protection policies and practices in the Greater Mekong Sub-region,...

Coordination and role of key stakeholders in setting up and implementing policies and procedures to facilitate recruitment, preparation,...

The ILO Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration has identified a number of guidelines on how best to promote international cooperation on labour migration.

Labour migration

Analytical report on the international labour migration statistics database in ASEAN: Improving data collection for evidence-based...

The report provides a broad-based quantitative analysis of the current and emerging trends in international labour migration into, from, and among the ten Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Fact sheet

Deployment of women migrant workers from selected ASEAN Member States, 2000-14

This fact sheet presents the total number of deployed migrant workers from the top six ASEAN countries of origin as well as the respective total number and percentage of deployed women migrant workers.

Volunteer factories participating in the project.

Recommdendations of the 8th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour

Recommdendations of the 8th ASEAN Forum on Migrant Labour which carried the theme “Empowering the ASEAN Community through Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers”.

Project fact sheet

International migration in ASEAN at a glance

The ILMS Database is the first of its kind in the region. It gathers together official government data from a number of statistical sources on international migrant workers’ stocks and flows within the region as well as on countries’ nationals...

Minimum Wage

Minimum wage and its relevance to socio-economic progress in the Lao People's Democratic Republic : A workers' perspective

This paper examines empirical aspects of the regulatory and institutional frameworks and the process of minimum wage adjustment in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, as well as its actual implementation in different sectors – private, public and...