-GDP Laos has emerged into international trade with very deprived social and economic conditions in 1986. Since then, Laos has pursued significant economic and institutional reforms aimed at improving the social and economic well-being of Lao people by consistently building itself a market-orientated economic.
-The above figure shows that the industrial value-added in the share of GDP has slowly been increasing, particularly since 1986 when the policy for FDI was improved (Decree No. 73/PM) to attract more investors. The growth in industrial sector is based on the modest growth in the manufacturing subsectors, accounting for over 75 percent of industry sector, especially in the garment industry, a principal manufacturing export as one of the three large export earners of Laos government, together with timber and electricity products.