Macroeconomic Forecast Laos

Laos' consumer price inflation (CPI) ticked down for the third consecutive month in August, coming in at 6.3% y-o-y down from 7.1% y-o-y in July and a peak of 9.8% y-o-y in May. We argued back in May that we did not see inflation being much of a medium term problem in Laos as infrastructure developments should help to improve productivity.

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