Milan Thomas
External Researcher
Milan is the Country Economist for Asian Development Bank in Cambodia. His responsibilities include macroeconomic monitoring, project analysis, and economic research. He has over a decade of experience in design, implementation, and impact evaluation of development innovations from positions at ADB, Results for Development Institute (Washington, D.C.), USAID, and World Bank. He has published over a dozen peer-reviewed journal articles on topics ranging from the impact of sanitation on children’s growth to team performance in the National Basketball Association. Milan completed a BA in Economics at the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Economics at Georgetown University, where his dissertation, “Economic Essays on Development Innovations,” was supervised by two renowned development economists: Martin Ravallion and Michael Kremer.
Email : mthomas@adb.org
Women with children in their households are significantly more likely to be unemployed, highlighting the disproportionate gendered caregiving burden upon return from Thailand.Employment outcomes vary significantly across provinces, with Battambang province showing the greatest challenges.Return migrants face difficulties...
We use GTAP-FIN, a dynamic global computable general equilibrium model, to estimate the consequences for Cambodia of energy-market disruption originating in the Persian Gulf in 2026. We model two sets of shocks: a rise in prices for oil, gas, refined petroleum and chemicals, implemented via a productivity disruption to energy production in the...
Due to the April 2025 announcement of new, country-specific United States (US) import tariffs, bilateral trade relationships with the US have taken center stage in developing countries, especially small, export-oriented economies like Cambodia. Exports to the US are about 33% of total Cambodian exports and worth 25% of gross domestic product (G...
