A significant amount of new information about poverty in Cambodia has become available since the last ADB country poverty analysis was published in 2011, at which time the most recent official figures dated to 2007. In 2013, Cambodia’s Ministry of Planning introduced new poverty lines and published revised poverty estimates for the years 2004 and 2007 and new figures for 2008–2011. Poverty rates for 2012 were released in 2014. The new figures show some surprising results, including a dramatic decline in poverty during the peak years of the food, fuel, and financial crises of 2007–2009. Cambodia now counts among countries with the most rapid poverty reduction in the world. Inequality also appears to have fallen since 2007.
Cambodia Country Poverty Analysis 2014
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