Dr NGOV Penghuy

Senior Research Fellow

Started career as Assistant Professor at Nagoya University in Japan in 2008. Moved to Phnom Penh in 2014 as Director and Designated Associate Professor of Nagoya University, Cambodia Satellite Campus. Specialized in development economics and international economics. Recent research interest includes trade negotiations, FTA, trade facilitation with focus on Cambodia.

Email : penghuy@gmail.com


NGOV Penghuy


Cambodia's New Growth Strategy

This study investigates Cambodia's economic structural transformation and growth using descriptive and productivity decomposition methods on output and employment data of 12 industries from 2000 to 2022. Cambodia's economy is undergoing a structural transformation, and the growth driver has been shifting from agriculture to manufacturing and servic...


Inspired by the high and sustained economic growth of the past decades that lifted disposable income and pulled millions of people out of poverty, the Cambodian government has set its ambitious target of becoming an upper middle-income country by 2030 and further a high-income country by 2050. This aspiration terms as ‘Cambodia’s Vision 2030’...