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It proposes pathways toward more balanced development outcomes, including stabilizing, sharing, and sustaining through targeted reforms in debt, fiscal space, private sector dynamics, connectivity, health, learning, natural resource management, and social protection.","Public Disc losure Authorized  \n2021 Update  \nSystematic Country Diagnostic  \nLao People’s Democratic Republic  \nPub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disc losure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized  \n2021 Update  \nSystematic Country Diagnostic  \nLao People’s Democratic Republic  \n© 2022 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433  \nTelephone: 202-473-1000; [Internet: www.worldbank.org](Internet: www.worldbank.org)[ ](Internet: www.worldbank.org)[Some rights reserved.](Some rights reserved.)  \nThis work is a product of the staff of the World Bank with external contributions. 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