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East Asia The two small East Asian landlocked economies—isolated and sparsely inhabited Mongolia, contrasting with the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, readily accessible from both Thailand and Vietnam—have each made significant progress over the past 15 years. They have strongly expanded exports, but in both cases so far mostly by exploiting their energy and mineral resources to serve neighboring countries’ markets. Trade and transport service improvements that have already been started have a major contribution to make to the growth of much more diverse export activities for the next phase of each country’s development.
Notes 1. In table A4.1 the authors slightly modified the titles given for some of the WEF pillars to capture more precisely the scope of the aspects covered. This adjustment was made because of the focus here on the pillars rather than the overall summary scores. 2. The studies are prepared by joint teams from the international agencies under the Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance for the Least Developed Countries, an initiative led by the World Trade Organization. http://www.integratedframework .org/doctype/dtis.htm.
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