VEUNG Naron
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Mr Veung Naron has joined CDRI as a PhD scholarship awardee under the “Skills for Industry” project since mid-2018. He is involved in conducting a firm-level survey and in-depth interviews as well as writing reports for this project, focusing on the garment, food processing and electrical and electronic sector. He is currently doing his third year of PhD degree at Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia. In 2015, he obtained his master degree in International Development from the Graduate School of International Development (GSID), Nagoya University, Japan. His research interests include skill training, skill development, curriculum design and development, job market intermediaries, youth employment, and TVET quality improvement.
Email : naron@cdri.org.kh
This study investigates the role of vocational skills development (VSD) in addressing Cambodia’s industrial labour shortages and its broader economic impact. Using firm-level survey data from 101 companies in the garment, food processing, and electronic and electrical assembly sectors, alongside a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model, the res...
More than two thirds of Cambodia’s manufacturing companies have experienced growth and transformation over the past five years. This increase in complexity and sophistication requires high-skilled workers and vocational skills development (VSD) programmes play important roles in the transformation of companies in Cambodia. Pre-employment VSD progra...