Stratégies, répartition et enjeux des financements publics chinois en RDP Lao entre 2000 et 2017, d’après la base de données China AidData

Abstract

Laos ranks third, after Indonesia and Vietnam, among countries receiving chinese official development finance in Southeast Asia, according to the China AidData database, the most comprehensive on China's overseas deployment related to the New Silk Roads. The first part presents the sectors, timing, geographical distribution and actors of the $14.6 billion of projects financed over the period 2000-2017, concentrated mainly on the energy and transport-communications sectors. The second part studies the financial arrangements of the largest projects: dams and high-speed line. It shows that Laos is the first country in Southeast Asia to be caught up in the risks of over-indebtedness related to the methods of financing these major projects.

Keywords

• Aid
• foreign direct investment
• economy
• regional integration
• mega urban trends
• New Silk Roads