Interesting article here. It's hard not to agree with the conclusion.
http://www.newmandala.org/is-cambodia-b ... east-asia/
Lack of transparency, accountability and judicial independence as well as widespread corruption seem to be unalterable elements of Cambodia’s development process. Could the reform bottleneck harm the country’s economic prospects and how far will the regime go to stay in power? Markus Karbaum reports.
Sometimes odds and ends are enough to reveal the whole picture. In April 2016, The Phnom Penh Post reported that in 2015 the Cambodian government received just $5 million in lease payments from 173 concessionaires, who lease a total of 1.4 million hectares. Despite a moratorium on issuing new concessions, which was announced in 2012, the widespread approval of economic land concessions has become notorious for consequences that threaten the survival of farmers due to the loss of their land.
As this is just the tip of the iceberg of corruption in Cambodia, one could assume Cambodia’s Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) has got its hands full. According to Transparency International, in 2015 the Kingdom of Cambodia remained the most corrupt country in Southeast Asia. Surprisingly, instead of tackling at least a few of those systematic manifestations of petty and grand corruption, in March 2016 the ACU started an investigation against deputy opposition leader Kem Sokha due to his assumed relationship with an alleged mistress.
This bizarre interpretation of political priorities was yet another low of the government’s crackdown on the opposition since mid-2015. By the end of April 2016, two lawmakers had been imprisoned irrespective of their constitutionally guaranteed immunity. Opposition leader Sam Rainsy only managed to avoid a similar punishment by going into a third self-imposed exile.
Despite an increase in repression, the opposition still looks forward to winning the parliamentary elections in 2018. There are countless reasons why most people are fed up with the autocratic government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, one of the longest serving political leaders in the world. Corruption, nepotism, malpractice, red tape and despotism have become deeply entrenched in Cambodian politics and society.
Similar to other countries with gerontocratic leadership, the regime’s reactions to a potential loss of power not only appear helpless, superficial and overstrained; they also reveal a complete ignorance of Cambodia’s substantial reform needs. The latest edition of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index finds that management performance in Cambodia is today indeed considerable poorer than it was 10 years ago.
Is Cambodia the new sick man of Asia?
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The analysis is spot on.alanclarke72 wrote:Interesting article here. It's hard not to agree with the conclusion.
http://www.newmandala.org/is-cambodia-b ... east-asia/
The claimed average annual GDP growth of 7 percent cannot be relied upon. The IMF and the World Bank have vested interests and would not want to question anything that is released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.Dr Markus Karbaum wrote:Despite average annual GDP growth of 7 per cent in recent years, Cambodia appears to stand on the threshold of enormous economic challenges.
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I like this guy. No lizard people claims?Cambodian wrote:The claimed average annual GDP growth of 7 percent cannot be relied upon. The IMF and the World Bank have vested interests and would not want to question anything that is released by the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Suu Kyi’s Message to Migrants Resonates in Cambodia
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/suu- ... ia-114771/
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/suu- ... ia-114771/
ALEX WILLEMYNS AND KHY SOVUTHY wrote:Ms. Suu Kyi said she told the workers she hoped the situation in Burma was improving fast enough that they could soon return home and find work there—a message of optimism that elicited dramatic scenes of huddled Burmese workers crying in the rain as she spoke
In Cambodia, if garment and other exports were to decline or collapse, the country could always try to export more people to places like Thailand, Malaysia, Qatar.Preap Kol wrote:“Our current leaders encourage people to migrate and are very proud to boast that Cambodians migrating overseas have lifted economic growth.
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