Laos

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Laos is a dirt poor country[1] in Southeast Asia. Laos is a one-party communist republic, effectively an oligarchy, and 80% of the population consists of subsistence farmers. The country's primary sources of income are mining and hydroelectric power. As is typical of communist countries, the press is government-run. The economy has been growing rapidly since decentralization in 1986, enough that they opened a stock exchange in 2011.

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  1. So poor that their first bridge was a present from Australia [1]
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