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Waiting for Promises?
Publication Year: -- / Sources: Equal AccsessIt’s a picture book about the villagers who are waiting for help from their representatives. They were promised during the election campaign that an irrigation canal would be built if their representatives won the election. But the rice is starting to die because their isn’t any water for the fields. What should the villagers do?
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Civics: An Introduction to Law, Rights and Democracy for Cambodian Citizens
Publication Year: 2011 / Sources: Bridges Across Borders CambodiaCivics is the study of the rights and duties of citizenship. Citizens play a critical role in democratic societies, which rely on their participation to function and flourish. Being informed about civics is especially important in societies like Cambodia, which are still making the transition to a fully developed democracy.
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Avoiding Forced Eviction: A Community Guide to Negotiation and Advocacy
Publication Year: 2014 / Sources: Equitable Cambodia and Inclusive Development InternationalThis guide aims to help communities develop “interest-based” negotiation skills and understand how to use a range of tools to deal with the power imbalance between them and those trying to take their housing, land and resources. It may be useful to communities threatened with eviction, as long as the other party is willing to negotiate.
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Interwoven: How the Better Work Program Improves Job and Life Quality in the Apparel Sector
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: World Bank GroupFollowing decades of civil strife, Cambodia embarked on an ambitious market-oriented reform program. Cambodia was not a party to the global system of quotas known as the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), nor was it a member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In this context, the government took steps to transform the state-owned apparel plants into exporters and foreign investment began to flow into Cambodia.
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Asian Economic Integration Report 2015: How Can Special Economic Zones Catalyze Economic Development?
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: Asian Development BankAsia’s trade has slowed faster than world trade; trade growth has been below economic growth since 2012. Structural factors such as slower expansion of global value chains and growth moderation in the People’s Republic of China may be at play, but the region must embrace further efforts to make trade and investment regimes more open.
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