Khiev Hieng, a 58-year-old widow, shows her excitement as she draws a lottery card from a plastic container. The card is for a plot of land being distributed to poor and land-poor families. Hieng’s card allocates her a 30-by-40-meter plot to build a house on, and 3.5 hectares of agricultural land for herself and six [...]
The Youth Study Tour was a great opportunity for me and other young people to learn about development work in communities, and especially about development programs supported by the World Bank. It has made me aware of how much financial support the World Bank gives the Cambodian people for development. Members of the tour group [...]
Cambodia has made greater than expected progress in reducing poverty over the last decade, a new report released said: but new and more complex institutional and policy changes and strengthened partnerships are needed if Cambodia is to achieve its Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 and giving millions of Cambodians a better quality [...]