Social Assessment of Land in Cambodia: A Field Study
This working paper presents a comprehensive social assessment of land issues in Cambodia, conducted as a precursor to a national land titling and registration initiative. The study explores the complex landscape of land ownership, governance, and conflict resolution across rural and urban settings. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in six provinces...
Land Tenure in Cambodia: A Data Update
This working paper presents a comprehensive update on land tenure in Cambodia, focusing on land use patterns, concession allocations, registration systems, and socio-economic implications. Drawing on aerial mapping, government records, and eight major surveys conducted between 1995 and 2000, the study analyses forest, agricultural, and fishing conc...
A Study of the Cambodian Labour Market: Reference to Poverty Reduction, Growth and Adjustment to Crisis
This working paper explores the nature and trajectory of Cambodia’s labour market, analysing both its structure and recent trends. On this basis, it examines the links between the labour market, poverty reduction and growth, and the impact which recent political and economic crises have had on the conditions of labour. Cambodia faces the dual a...
Technical Assistance and Capacity Development at the School of Agriculture Prek Leap: An Institutional Case Study
Arising from ashes left by the Khmer Rouge regime, the School of Agriculture Prek Leap (SAPL), like many other government institutions, has relied heavily on foreign assistance for its development. Apart from material support, technical assistance (TA) has played a major role in building both individual and institutional capacity. There is no d...
Land Ownership, Sales and Concentration in Cambodia
Land is the most important productive asset in agrarian societies such as Cambodia’s. Throughout Cambodian history, land ownership rights have varied with changes in government. In the period before French colonisation (pre-1863), when all land belonged to the sovereign, people were freely allowed to till unoccupied land and could cultivate as...
Technical Assistance and Capacity Development in an Aid-dependent Economy: the Experience of Cambodia
Cambodia is aid-dependent: the scale of aid is of such magnitude that it distorts the economy in two important ways. First, a high proportion of Cambodia’s best-educated people either work for donor agencies or international non-government organisations (NGOs) or have been assigned to donors’ projects as counterparts. This raises the price of e...
Cambodia: Enhancing Good Governance for Sustainable Development
Good governance is critical for Cambodia's future. Over the last decade, during transition toward liberal democracy and a market economy, Cambodia’s policy-makers, donors and civil society have recognised that strengthening good governance is imperative if Cambodia is to sustain socio-economic development.The current study, which was commissio...
Seasonality in the Cambodian Consumer Price Index
Preliminary results from a seasonal adjustment of Cambodia’s official consumer price index (CPI) indicate significant seasonality in the series. Although the seasonal factors mirror the country’s main food production cycle, the original series has itself been volatile in recent years, and because of the procedures used in its compilation, it...
Impact of the Asian Financial Crisis on the SEATEs: The Cambodian Perspective
This working paper examines the multifaceted impact of the Asian financial crisis on Cambodia, one of the Southeast Asian transitional economies (SEATEs). While Cambodia was initially insulated from the immediate financial contagion, the crisis gradually exerted significant pressure on its financial, real, and social sectors. The paper analyzes mac...
Cambodian Labour Migration to Thailand: A Preliminary Assessment
The Asian financial crisis induced a decline in overall economic growth and a surge in unemployment in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. The downturn in the Thai economy has had an adverse impact on thousands of migrant workers, who had been able to take advantage of job opportunities during Thailand’s economic boom. An estimated 82,000 Cam...