Asia is a puzzle. China, India and several other countries are enjoying rapid economic growth. Yet some 600 million Asians – more than the entire population of Latin America – live on less than a dollar a day. But this puzzle is also an opportunity: if China and India can sustain their 8-10 percent annual [...]
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 [...]
Prime Minister Hun Sen has repeatedly warned that a failure to improve land management and stop “land grabbing” could lead to a “farmers’ revolution.” While the World Bank is supporting the government to title more land under its Land Management and Administration Project, the issue of what to do about existing land disputes remains a [...]
From March 27 to April 7, 2006, a joint mission by the World Bank and the Government of Germany through GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) reviewed progress on the preparation of a proposed Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project (LASED). The proposal is being prepared under the guidance of the Council for Land Policy [...]
he World Bank is preparing a new Poverty Assessment for the Consultative Group Meeting to be held in March 2006. World Bank newsletter interviews Tim Conway, Poverty Specialist at the World Bank’s Cambodia Office, about poverty rates, poverty lines and related indicators. Q: How is the poverty line calculated? A: To calculate a “poverty line” [...]
The Government’s Public Financial Management (PFM) Reform Program is one of the major economic and governance initiatives that the World Bank and other development partners support. The World Bank Newsletter had the opportunity to interview Dr. Robert Taliercio, Senior Country Economist for Cambodia, about his work on Cambodia’s PFM reform over the past five years. [...]
Good governance is at the heart of the Cambodian Government’s Rectangular Strategy and is highlighted as a requirement for the country to achieve poverty reduction and sustainable development. Achieving good governance, however, requires that the institutions that guarantee accountability and transparency become effective. Social accountability is based on three key relationships: between citizens and the [...]
Phnom Penh, May 22, 2007—with resolution of the crisis surrounding the World Bank’s leadership, the Bank’s Country Director for Cambodia, Ian Porter, has called for a continuation of the organization’s important work in the field. “Now that the Bank’s leadership issue has been resolved and is behind us, we can focus all our efforts on [...]
Cambodia passed a new Land Law in July creating the conditions for a reform of land management and the opportunity for the distribution of land. The reform is going forward with systematic land titling that will involve issuing titles to all owners of this land. This will probably take between 10 and 15 years. A [...]