ROADS IN LAOS.

ROADS IN LAOS. I have discovered in writing this blog that I am fascinated by roads and how they extend markets and facilitate trade. I have posted several times on roads, including here and here. This article by Thomas Fuller describes how China has been building two-lane highways through the Himalayan foothills in remote parts of Myanmar, Laos and Viet Nam. A final link is being officially inaugurated. The price of an apple in Thailand has dropped from one dollar to twenty cents in ten years. “Overall, even before the completion of the road, trade between China and the upland Southeast Asian countries Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam had risen impressively, to $53 billion in 2007 from just over $1 billion a decade ago.”