The rising fuel and food prices Cambodia experienced in 2008 pushed year on year inflation above 20 percent in March – August. Although high food prices negatively affect everyone, they impact more severely on the poor, especially net food buyers. In Cambodia, the poorest 40 percent of the population spend 70 percent of their income on food. Most of these food-insecure households live in poor rural areas, particularly the Tonle Sap and Mekong Plain regions. The urban poor were also […]

Cambodia is launching another phase of decentralisation, attempting to restructure sub-national, especiallyprovincial, administration. These reforms are widely referred to as decentralisation and deconcentrationor, more simply, as D&D. The aim is to establish unified provincial and possibly district administrations,which are accountable to both the central government and to the people in their territory, based on aclear and accountable allocation of functions and funding. To achieve this, more accountable fiscalrelationships and management are crucial. It is not known yet how these can […]