NITH Kosal

Research Associate

Kosal Nith is a research associate at the Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI) and coordinator of the East Asia working group of the Young Scholars Initiative. Before joining CDRI in July 2023, he held various positions at Future Forum (2020–2022), including Young Research Fellow, Junior Research Fellow, and Program Coordinator. In addition, he has worked as a field supervisor at WorldFish and interned and volunteered with the Youth Resource Development Program and Habitat for Humanity.

His research primarily focuses on macroeconomics, with contributions to topics such as economic growth and development, economic uncertainty and resilience, inflation, and income distribution. Kosal’s research approach draws on post-Keynesian economics and other heterodox economic approaches, particularly their applications in policymaking contexts.

Kosal holds a double bachelor’s degree in Economics from Lumière University Lyon 2 and the Royal University of Law and Economics, awarded in July 2019.

Email : kosal.nith@cdri.org.kh


NITH Kosal

Working Papers 149
20 Years of FDI in Cambodia: Towards Upper Middle-Income Status and Beyond

Although Cambodia has a strong ambition to become an upper middle-income nation by 2030 and a high income by 2050, it faces various challenges in achieving these goals. This study investigates Cambodia’s progress and potential in this regard by analysing its position and trajectory relative to Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows...

Opportunity Case 3: Livelihood Resilience in Rural Villages

CDRI has been conducting the Moving out of Poverty (MOP) survey since 1996/1997 in 3 village household samples and this sample have been extended 11 villages across 7 provinces by 2020. CDRI surveys the same 1000 households every three years to track the poverty dynamics across the five main regions of Cambodia. This rare longitudinal dataset i...

20 Years of FDI in Cambodia: Towards Upper Middle-Income Status and Beyond

The assessment of the development potential of inward FDI (IFDI), and its complementarity with outward FDI (OFDI), in terms of creation/destruction and specialisation/diversification of national, regional and local economic activities, sectors and functions, employment, skills and innovation is all the more urgent to enhance the understanding o...

The Impact of COVID-19 on Inclusive Development and Governance: Rapid and Post-Pandemic Assessment in the CLMV

In close coordination with local governments and organizations, the project will identify gender-sensitive policies and good practices from the macro to micro level that will support the recovery process and improve resilience among vulnerable women workers and micro, small, and medium enterprises. It will facilitate policy dialogue and coordin...