After hiatus, World Bank OKs proposal for new funding

19 November 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Aid and development / Government / Land / Land policy and administration / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction / Multilateral development assistance / Provincial and local governments / Social development / Social land concessions / The poor / World Bank
Boeung Kak / Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Japan Social Development Fund / Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development II (LASED II) / Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction / Sareth Boramy / World Bank

Officials at the World Bank, which in 2011 froze new loans to Cambodia amid a furore surrounding the Boeung Kak lake evictions, have approved preliminary proposals to issue funding for a project that could see families forcibly removed in Kampong Thom province. Under the World Bank’s Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development II (LASED II) project, $25 million would be given to the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction. … Loans were stopped over the bank’s support for a land-titling program that sparked outrage when Boeung Kak lake residents were forcibly evicted to make way for a concession granted to ruling Cambodian People’s Party Senator Lao Meng Khin. …

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