SAMRETH Sovannroeun
Senior Visiting Fellow
Sovannroeun Samreth is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University, Japan. In 2009, he received his Ph.D. in economics from the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, Japan. He began his career as a Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan, and later as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, under the program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). In 2011, he was assigned to the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Saitama University as an Assistant Professor, and in 2013, he was promoted to tenured Associate Professor. His primary research interests include dollarization, microfinance, and governance issues in developing countries.
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...
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...