This report is prepared for the ASEAN compiles the main history of Laos’s instrument agreed upon among the ASEAN countries. This handbook, together with other titles on investment matters published or to be published by our group, is an attempt to bridge the information gap, enhance transparency and provide investors and the private sector, within and outside ASEAN, with a better understanding of the investment policies of the region.
This handbook complements the publication point to “Laos of ASEAN.” We hope that the two publications when read together will provide investors with better insights into ASEAN’s investment regime. I also hope that investors will find this handbook useful as they seek to be better informed on ASEAN’s commitment to further developing a highly congenial investment environment for investment under the ASEAN investment area arrangement.