By Mehmet Enes Beşer Laos enters 2026 with something it hasn’t always had lately: the sense that the immediate economic fires are no longer racing from house to house. The currency panic has eased. The worst of the price whiplash feels less constant. A new leadership team arrives after a stretch of consolidation that—by Lao standards—looks like a return to ...
On the recently announced reform package. By Dr. Prof. Fernando Esteche Last week, the National Assembly of People’s Power unanimously approved, in an extraordinary session, a package of 176 measures grouped into 23 key areas, which Prime Minister Manuel Marrero presented as the most profound economic opening program since 1959. There were no street protests or people’s mobilizations. What occurred ...