{"id":33166,"date":"2025-02-17T22:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdri.org.kh\/new\/publications\/cambodia-the-challenge-of-productive-employment-creation\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T22:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T15:53:06","slug":"cambodia-the-challenge-of-productive-employment-creation","status":"publish","type":"publications","link":"https:\/\/cdri.org.kh\/new\/publications\/cambodia-the-challenge-of-productive-employment-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia: The Challenge of Productive Employment Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Economic growth in Cambodia came to an abrupt halt in 1997 as the domestic political crisis<br \/>\nand the external financial crisis took their toll. However, Cambodia has been comparatively<br \/>\nmildly affected by the Asian crisis and, provided that political stability can be achieved, there<br \/>\nare good chances that the economic decline in 1997 will become little more than a parenthesis. A more fundamental development challenge facing the country is the very rapid increase<br \/>\nin the labour force as the large cohorts born in the early 1980s enter the labour market. A<br \/>\nmajor weakness in the economic development to date has been its narrow base. It has largely<br \/>\nbeen attributed to growth in the urban industrial and service sectors, while the performance of<br \/>\nagriculture has been rather lacklustre. The twin goals of productive employment generation<br \/>\nand poverty alleviation will require much more dynamic development of agriculture and of<br \/>\nthe rural economy as a whole to succeed. Access to productive assets\u2014i.e. land, physical and<br \/>\nhuman capital\u2014and insecurity arising from the absence of the rule of law, are identified as<br \/>\nthe factors with the strongest bearing on poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic growth in Cambodia came to an abrupt halt in 1997 as the domestic political crisis and the external financial crisis took their toll. However, Cambodia has been comparatively mildly affected by the Asian crisis and, provided that political stability can be achieved, there are good chances that the economic decline in 1997 will become little more than a parenthesis. 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