Cambodia: The Agriculture, Irrigation, and Rural Roads Sectors: Public Expenditure Review
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: World BankThis report focuses on areas with highest potential efficiency gains to increase the value for money from investments in core public goods and services such as extension, irrigation and rural roads. This is a first attempt to carry out such an analysis in Cambodia, and even in the Greater Mekong sub-region. Based on extensive data gathering and sur-veys, this chapter analyzes the efficiency and effectiveness of agricultural sector expenditures in Cambodia and assesses various options for increasing the impact of government expenditures on agricultural
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Competitiveness and Linkages in Cambodia’s Manufacturing Sector
Publication Year: 2014 / Sources: UNDPThe study is conducted to support the industrial development policy of the Royal Government of Cambodia in understanding the current status of the manufacturing sector and promoting the development of new industries in Cambodia. The study highlights key strengths and weaknesses as well as the linkages and spill-over effects of the manufacturing sector that serve as the critical findings for diversifying the industrial base.
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Open for Business? the Economic Impact of Internet Openness
Publication Year: 2014 / Sources: Dalberg Global DevelopmentThis report represents a first attempt to understand the economic impact of Internet openness. In order to do so, it is first necessary to determine what is meant by “openness.” We offer a working definition from a user’s perspective: Internet openness is the degree to which users in a given country are able to decide freely which platforms and services to use and what lawful content to access, create, or share.
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Phnom Penh: Multiple Indicator Assessment of The Urban Poor
Publication Year: -- / Sources: People in Need (PIN) & UNICEFAs part of its on-going efforts to assist the poorest households in Cambodia, People in Need (PIN) and UNICEF are expanding its support by considering what can be done to assist the increasing needs of the urban poor in Phnom Penh. This study, with financial and technical support from UNICEF, aimed to further understand and demonstrate what issues are facing the urban poor populations.
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Analysis of Cambodia’s Preparedness for the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges, Opportunities and Financing
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC)Precisely, the report aims to scrutinize the extent to which Cambodia is prepared to achieving SDGs based on the analysis of the existing development mechanisms/frameworks and policies Cambodia has developed. Within that overarching objective, it aims to, first of all, reveal any tensions or contradictions between the international version of SDGs and core Cambodian development plans such the National Strategic Development Plan. Second, it provides analyses of the challenges and opportunities for Cambodia and, if required, propose a macro picture of what Cambodian version of SDGs should transpire. Third, it will unravel the likely sources of funding for SDGs.
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Cambodia: Country Poverty Analysis 2014
Publication Year: Asian Development Bank / Sources: 2014Income poverty has fallen dramatically, but many families teeter only just above the poverty line. With a very large share of the population concentrated at the bottom of the income distribution, the poverty rate is highly sensitive to where the line is drawn. Vulnerability to poverty has increased, and urban poverty may be rising.
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Gender Equality in the Labor Market in Cambodia
Publication Year: 2013 / Sources: International Labor Organization (ILO) & Asian Development Bank (ADB)The report comprises a gendered analysis of Cambodia’s labor market, policies, and legislation and provides recommendations for policies and legislation that have the potential to expand or improve employment and work opportunities for women in specific sectors in Cambodia. The report provides a summary of findings and recommendations that are specifically relevant for Cambodia from an analysis of gender equality and the labor markets in Cambodia.
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More Vulnerable: The Impact of the Economic Downturn on Women in Cambodia
Publication Year: 2010 / Sources: OxfamIn Cambodia, women are most vulnerable because the sectors in which they are most active – for example, export manufacturing, the garment industry, restaurant and tourism services – were hardest hit by the crisis, causing huge job cuts. On the family front, women tend to be responsible for family welfare; thus, the reduction in earning and remittances is likely to have adverse impacts on women.
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Cambodia’s Special Economic Zones
Publication Year: 2015 / Sources: Asian Development Bank (ADB)This study examines the role of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) within the trade policy of Cambodia. It asks whether Cambodia’s establishment of SEZs since late 2005 has been successful, based on the evidence to date, and analyzes the appropriate role and management of SEZs over the next decade or more. The report builds upon field work in Cambodia in October 2014, in which SEZs were visited in three locations within Cambodia.
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Coping with Domestic Pressure and Gaining from a Strengthened Global Economy
Publication Year: 2014 / Sources: World BankCambodia’s economy has withstood domestic pressures and managed to sustain its high growth driven by its usual engines of growth. Cambodia’s economic growth is estimated to reach a six-year high of 7.4 percent in 2013, despite the adverse effects posed by post-election political uncertainty and labor unrest. This growth has been led by the acceleration of garment exports and continued growth in tourism.
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