the services sector especially in the least developed countries also faces the challenges created by the informal nature of many service activities which could perpetuate poverty and increase the vulnerability of the poor the country passed the thresholds for gross national income per capita and the human assets index at the review if that country sustains its development gains and meets the criteria again in it will qualify for removal from the list in in the context of structural transformation the lao peoples democratic republic may have to face more intense competition from other laboursurplus countries in lowend assemblytype production than that confronted by the early industrializers especially in a more globalized economy