Analysing Chronic Poverty in Rural Cambodia: Evidence from Panel Data
This paper uses four years of panel data on 793 households collected during 2001–11 to measure chronic poverty in rural Cambodia and to identify its key determinants. A household wealth index—a proxy for long-term welfare—constructed by polychoric principal component analysis is used as welfare indicator. Both ordered logistic and multinomial...
Foreign Investment in Agriculture in Cambodia
This study investigates the extent, nature, and impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Cambodia’s agriculture sector from 2000 to 2010. Despite agriculture’s vital role in Cambodia’s economy—employing a large rural workforce and contributing to foreign exchange earnings—FDI in the sector remains modest, averaging only 6 percent of total i...
A Baseline Survey of Subnational Governments: Towards a Better Understanding of Decentralisation and Deconcentration in Cambodia
The district and provincial council elections in May 2009, for the first time, offered communes the opportunity to choose councillors from whom they can demand accountability, and introduced a new relationship between commune councillors and higher councils. The main goal of this survey is to gauge the view of commune and district councillors and d...