Foreword: This new edition of CDRI’s Annual Development Review, for 2009-10, is to be launched at the fourth annual Cambodia Outlook Conference, a partnership between CDRI and ANZ Royal Bank, in Phnom Penh on 17 March 2010. The Outlook Conference, on the theme Returning to a High Growth Economy: Policy Priorities and Action for Growth and Sustainable Development, again brings together leaders from government, the private sector, research and civil society organisations, and the international development community to consider Cambodia’s achievements and its future. The opening keynote address of the conference will again be delivered by Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Royal Government of Cambodia.
This year’s Cambodia Outlook Conference provides a unique opportunity for leaders and policy makers from the government, private sector and development community, along with policy influencers from research institutes and civil society, to share their knowledge and experience, and to review the impacts of the global and regional economic downturn, responses to it, and priorities for future policy and action, both for macro-economic management, and for key sectors such as agriculture and rural development, emerging industries, infrastructure and energy, and tourism. This year’s conference is of added significance for CDRI as it is the first in a series of events to celebrate CDRI’s 20th anniversary, and the contribution of CDRI, as Cambodia’s leading independent development policy research institute, to both Cambodian development policy research and to Cambodian human resource development.
The 2009-10 Annual Development Review is the fifth annual review of major development issues for Cambodia. This year’s review provides detailed research-based analysis of the impact and aftermath of the global and regional financial and economic crisis and downturn on Cambodia, both at the macro-economic level and for key sectors, along with aspects of particular significance for the poor and vulnerable such as employment and livelihood security, food and energy security, and coping and risk management practices of poor and vulnerable workers, and the implications of these for social protection policy and strategies in Cambodia. It also includes chapters reflecting the outcomes of some of the broad range of recent CDRI research studies on health service delivery, parliamentary and civil society interaction, Chinese investment, services trade liberalisation, stakeholder consultation mechanism on sub-regional integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, and farmer participation in and management of irrigation systems.
The English language version of the review is accompanied by Khmer language summaries of each chapter, contained in a separate volume, to broaden the review’s audience and accessibility. We hope that the annual Cambodia Outlook Conference, along with the Annual Development Review and its associated Khmer language summary materials, will contribute to the broader dissemination of quality development policy research on issues critical to Cambodia’s future, and be useful resources for the development policies of the Royal Government of Cambodia and its international development partners and national stakeholders. These publications, along with the proceedings of the 2010 Cambodia Outlook Conference, are all available as free of charge downloads from the CDRI website at www.cdri.org.kh.
Larry Strange
Executive Director CDRI
March 2010
The main contents of this fifth Annual Development Review are:
Parart One:
Chapter 1: Cambodia in the Sweep of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis
Chapter 2: A Double Blow to the Poor: Cambodia’s Food Security inthe Face of the Food and Economic Shocks.
Chapter 3:.:How did Cambodian Rural Households Cope with Shocks from Food and Oil Price Increases?
Chapter 4: Informal Risk Management and Safety Nnet Practices in Economic Crises in Cambodia: Experiences of Poor and Vulnerable Workers and Households
Part Two:
Chapter 5: How Managers Manage in the Cambodian Health Sector
Chapter 6: Searching for an Improved Path to Civil Society-Parliamentarian Interactions in Cambodia
Chapter 7: Chinese Investment in Cambodia.
Chapter 8: Service Ttrade Liberalisation and Growth in Cambodia: Case of Finance and Ttelecom Sectors.
Chapter 9: Ttowards a Better Understanding of the Political Economy of Regional Integration in the Greater Mekong Sub-region: Stakeholder Coordination and Consultation for Sub-regional Ttrade Facilitation in Cambodia
Chapter 10: Farmer Participation and the Success of Farmer-managed Irrigation Systems: A Case Study of the O-treng Farmer Water User Community, Kompong Speu Province
Like other ADR publications, this ADR 2009-10 contains very useful information on the most current issues facing Cambodia. A shortened version of this document is also available in Khmer.
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