The Effects of Residents’ Participation on Their Perception of and Support for Community-based Ecotourism in Cambodia: A Structural Equation Modelling...

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The Dynamics of Microcredit Borrowings in Cambodia

This study uses panel data collected in 11 villages in 2011-14 to investigate the impact of microcredit on paddy harvest and income, input costs for paddy production, and self-employment income. The panel data make it possible to implement difference-in-differences and triple-differences estimators. The results show that credit participants hav...

Rice Policy Study: Implications of Rice Policy Changes in Vietnam for Cambodia’s Rice Policy and Rice Producers in Southeastern Provinces

Moving Up Value Chains for Industrialisation, Digitisation, Growth and Development

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A Comparison of Practices between Non-Indigenous and Indigenous Community Forestry in the Use of Firewood and Non-Timber Forest Products

Emerging Challenges of Cambodia’s Local Government: Resource Mobilisation, Local Initiative and Civic Engagement

The Political Economy of Primary Education Reform in Cambodia

This paper examines the quality of primary education provision in Cambodia using a ‘political settlements’ framework developed at the University of Manchester. The framework characterises Cambodia as a ‘hybrid’ settlement with a weak dominant party and predatory administration, albeit with some islands of administrative effectiveness. Such states c...

Cambodia Macroeconomic Impacts of Public Consumption on Education — A Computable General Equilibrium Approach

Lack of human capital is seen as one of the most significant constraints for Cambodia to be more competitive and to reach upper-middle-income country status. A recent discussion among researchers, policymakers, the private sector and development partners reached a broad consensus that a skills gap is emerging in Cambodia. In spite of concerted effo...