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...
Analysing Chronic Poverty in Rural Cambodia: Evidence from Panel Data
This paper uses four years of panel data on 793 households collected during 2001–11 to measure chronic poverty in rural Cambodia and to identify its key determinants. A household wealth index—a proxy for long-term welfare—constructed by polychoric principal component analysis is used as welfare indicator. Both ordered logistic and multinomial...
Foreign Investment in Agriculture in Cambodia
This study investigates the extent, nature, and impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia’s agriculture sector from 2000 to 2010. Despite agriculture’s vital role in Cambodia’s economy—employing a large rural workforce and contributing to foreign exchange earnings—FDI in the sector remains modest, averaging only 6 percent of total i...
