Impact of High Food Prices in Cambodia
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 o...
The Early Harvest Programme: Implications for Cambodian Agriculture
This study examines the development, features and implications of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (FTA) on regional economies. It focuses on the economic benefits of the ASEAN-China FTA from the perspective of Cambodia, the potential impacts of the Early Harvest Program (EHP) on its agricultural sector, and recommended policy responses for Cambodia...
Trade Research Institutions in Asia-Pacific: Capacity-Building Needs in Developing Countries
The informal meeting of core Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT) research institutions in 2004 highlighted the need for building the capacity of research institutions from least developed countries (LDCs) in the region. However, little research or information is available on what the needs of these research institutions are...
Focusing on Cambodia’s High Value Forests: Livelihoods and Management
With logging operations generally focused on timber “mining”, and royalty collection ineffective, forest management in Cambodia has yet to deliver the economic, conservation, and rural development benefits envisioned. Rather, the management approach in production forests has tended to marginalise local forest users and producers. Based on experienc...
Envisioning a New Paradigm of Development Cooperation in Cambodia
The Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) acknowledges with thanks permission granted by the EGDI Secretariat1, Stockholm Sweden, to extract and reprint with Khmer translation, an account of Cambodia's experience of development dialogue with the outside world during the last twenty-five years. This account, written by Eva Mysliwiec, fo...