Educational Research and Innovation
Access to formal financial services and technology across low-, middle- and high-income countries is far from universal. East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia together account for over 800 million unbanked people, and the region is home to over 50% of the unbanked and digitally under-served globally. Digital financial...
Agriculture and Rural Development
To address urgent concerns on climate change, the CGIAR, together with its centres and development partners, is officially launching the Securing the Food Systems of Asian Mega-Deltas for Climate and Livelihood Resilience (AMD). The initiative aims to create resilient, inclusive, and productive deltas by removing systemic barriers to the scaling...
Agriculture and Rural Development
Small-and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) are regarded as backbone of Cambodia’s economic growth (IFC 2010; Shariff et al. 2010). The number of formally registered SMEs is about 43,258 establishments, based on 2021 annual report by Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology, and Innovation (MISTI 2022), and the enterprises absorb around 435,849 employment....
Natural Resources and Environment
In Cambodia, the source of fuel for households from liquefied petroleum gas (LGP) accounts for 56 per cent of urban settlements and 11 percent of rural residents, and it ranks second after firewood and charcoal. The source of electricity used by households countrywide is quite small at only about 3...
Natural Resources and Environment
This two-year project builds upon previous PRCI initiatives in Southeast Asia, addressing the urgent need for advanced economic policy analysis skills in the Mekong subregion’s agri-food system, which includes Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The project aims to bridge the expertise gap identified by regional partners and boost research capacity...
Development Economics and Trade
Over the last 20 years, the Kingdom of Cambodia has made remarkable progress in creating an enabling environment for business and investment, making the country favourable for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the region and creating commercial and export opportunities for local businesses. With this favourable business environment, Cambodia achieved...
Governance and Inclusive Society
This two-year project builds upon previous PRCI initiatives in Southeast Asia, addressing the urgent need for advanced economic policy analysis skills in the Mekong subregion’s agri-food system, which includes Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The project aims to bridge the expertise gap identified by regional partners and boost research capacity...
Governance and Inclusive Society
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic increased gender-based violence and harassment in the world of work. Even prior to the pandemic, in the garment sector, garment workers, particularly women garment workers, often experienced: forced overtime, threats of violence and verbal and mental abuses, gender discrimination, and limiting freedoms of association. The COVID-19...
Governance and Inclusive Society
Efforts to address climate change, migration, and security are contextualized by the inclusion of migration concerns in the negotiation and policy processes under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). So far, according to Elliott (2012), migration concerns were conspicuously absent from formal UNFCCC agreements and decisions. Essentially,...
Governance and Inclusive Society
Cambodia is a developing country where tax revenue is the fundamental source for government revenues. Tax receipts account for about 67.45 percent of total government income (Ministry of Economy and Finance, 2016). The Ministry of Economy and Finance (2014) states that a revenue-mobilization policy is necessary to transform the country...
Agriculture and Rural Development
More than 60 percent of Cambodia farmers grow rice, also, rice farmers mostly are smallholder suffering from low productivity, inadequate infrastructure, and vulnerability to flooding and drought. Remote smallholders might not benefit from existing irrigation system. Supported by IFAD-NARDT, the study is policy relevant which will provide evident based information...
Agriculture and Rural Development
The World Bank’s East Asia and Pacific Chief Economist Office is preparing a regional flagship report on childcare. The report is exploring how childcare availability can promote equity and growth objectives and how childcare can be designed to balance the dual objectives of promoting children’s development and mothers’ labour force...
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