Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the Rural Labour Market: Evidence from Nine Villages in Cambodia
This report presents new work on the impacts of the global financial crisis on the rural labour market in Cambodia. The analysis uses a combination of descriptive statistics and econometric modelling with data from household surveys in nine rural villages to track labour market changes before, during and after the crisis and then assesses the m...
Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Poverty: Evidence from Nine Villages in Cambodia
This paper investigates the impact of the global financial and economic crisis on Cambodian rural households, mainly focussing on trends in household consumption and poverty, i.e. the poverty headcount ratio, poverty gap and squared poverty gap, using four-period panel data covering the years 2001, 2004, 2008 and 2011. Descriptive statistics revea...
Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Employment in SMEs in Cambodia
This chapter assesses how the global economic and financial crisis has affected employment in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the construction and tourism sectors in Phnom Penh municipality and Siem Reap province. Key areas of analysis are SMEs’ business performance, fixed assets value, and employment, and support received to c...
Government Response to Inflation Crisis and Global Financial Crisis
This paper takes stock of the domestic macroeconomic policy deployed in mitigating the highest inflation and lowest growth Cambodia had experienced since 1994. Fiscal and monetary policies were well-coordinated alongside a package of administrative measures to tackle soaring inflation resultant of the oil and food price hikes in 2007 and slow...
Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Cambodian Economy at Macro and Sectoral Levels
Although the global economy is recovering from the financial and economic crisis that started in 2008, many countries have not returned to their pre-crisis growth rates. Cambodia is no exception. Despite its rich endowment of natural resources, especially minerals, oil and gas, the country still depends on a narrow growth base of just four sec...
A Gendered Analysis of Decentralisation Reform in Cambodia
The commune/sangkat elections in 2002 and 2007 marked a significant step forward in Cambodia’s democratic decentralisation process. Decentralisation is the most deep-cutting public sector reform and the politically most important democratic development in Cambodia. The reform rearranges power structures, creates space for a more pluralistic pol...
Baseline Survey for Socio-economic Impact Assessment: Greater Mekong Sub-region Transmission Project
This research project represents the first baseline socioeconomic survey that CDRI has conducted for the Greater Mekong Sub-region Transmission Project of Asian Development Bank. The study was designed to develop a set of comprehensive baseline demographic, social and economic as well as energy consumption indicators for the project. The tools...
Understanding Poverty Dynamics: Evidence from Nine Villages in Cambodia
Poverty in Cambodia is one of the highest in Asia. Despite the country’s very impressive GDP growth in the last decade or so, poverty remains pervasive specifically in the rural areas. The food and economic crises along with the idiosyncratic shocks of the recent years put the plight of the poor and near-poor at even greater risk. The Poverty...
Sectoral Composition of China's Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and Inequality: Development and Policy Implication for Cambodia
This paper explores China's economic transformation and its implications for Cambodia’s development and poverty reduction strategies. It analyses the sectoral composition of China's growth—particularly the roles of trade liberalization, industrial diversification, and rural development—and how these have contributed to poverty alleviation and...
A Basic Consumer Price Index for Cambodia 1993–2009
This paper calculates basic consumer price indices for Cambodia for 1993-2009, using data gathered in provincial markets, using the Phnom Penh Consumer Price Index base periods of 1994, 2000 and 2006 of the Cambodian National Institute of Statistics (NIS). The key output of the paper is a National Basic Consumer Price Index for Cambodia.The pa...