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They Will Need Land!

They Will Need Land!
The current land tenure situation and future land allocation needs of smallholder farmers in Cambodia

The objective of this background paper is to provide a succinct description of the land tenure situation in Cambodia and, on that basis, discuss the needs smallholder farmers have for land, projected up to the year 2030. The main problem it examines lies at the intersection between, on one hand, the demographic increase in the rural smallholder population and its associated need for land in the future (the demand side) and, on the other hand, the possibility offered by the different land tenure regimes to meet this demand (the supply side); the central question focuses on how supply can meet demand.

2016 ASEAN Business Outlook Survey

The 2016 ASEAN Business Outlook Survey shows that U.S. companies remain broadly optimistic about growth prospects in the ASEAN region. Executives representing U.S. companies in all ten ASEAN countries generally expect higher sales this year and next, plan to increase their investments in the region, and anticipate growing their workforces. 59% of respondents across the region expect higher profits in 2015 compared with 2014, and 76% forecast profit increases next year. 63% of respondents expect that their company will expand in the region and 51% expect to hire more workers this year. Let’s see the results for Cambodia.

2016 Natixis Global Retirement Index

The Global Retirement Index (GRI), Survey included 7,100 investors in 22 countries.

GRI is a multi-dimensional index developed by Natixis Global Asset Management and CoreData Research to examine the factors that drive retirement security and to provide a comparison tool for best practices in retirement policy. The index incorporates 18 performance indicators, grouped into four thematic sub-indices, which have been calculated on the basis of reliable data from a range of international organizations and academic sources. It takes into account the particular characteristics of the older demographic retiree group in order to assess and compare the level of retirement security in different countries around the world.

World Happiness Report 2016 Update (Vol. 1)

In this report we give new attention to the inequality of happiness across individuals. The distribution of world happiness is presented first by global and regional charts showing the distribution of answers, from roughly 3,000 respondents in each of more than 150 countries, to a question asking them to evaluate their current lives on a ladder where 0 represents the worst possible life and 10, the best possible.

Web-link: World Happiness Report

Doing Business 2016: Measuring Regulatory Quality and Efficiency

The Doing Business data highlight the important role of the government policies in the day-to-day life of domestic small and medium-size firms. The objective is to encourage regulations that are designed to be efficient, accessible to all who use them and simple in their implementation. Doing Business was designed with 2 main types of users in mind: policy-makers and researchers. Doing Business is a tool that government can use to design sound policies for the creation of firms and jobs.