Halpern, Joel2024-04-262024-04-261961https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/2337This paper surveys the situation existing prior to 1960 and does not consider changes that have occurrer since the outbreak of the Lao civil war. For agricultural statistics see Laos Project Paper No. 9LaosAnthropologyEconomicsunpublished_paperARRAY(0x55e48437c380)