LIDC - Laos

• 22% of population under poverty line
• South east Asia
• 73% in agriculture - mostly subsistence
• ASEAN since 1997
• $60 million in remittances in 2014 - main income
• Moving because subsistence farms = no money. No alternative occupations in rural areas, insufficient land availability
• Familiarity with language, border passes for entry across Mekong river

  -Needs better management
• Problems in humans trafficking

  -2013 36% <15

  -Forced labour and sex exploitation

  -Prevention, protection, prosecution
• +Laos - Thailand is biggest in ASEAN - political and economic stability

  -Migrants are low skilled under 18s - trafficking victims

  -Movement of disease