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Varying Degrees of Progress Shown in Development Report
- 30 June 2015
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Development policy and administration / Social development / The poor
- 2011 / Cambodian Millennium Development Goal / development progress / economic stability / Global Financial Crisis / Government / Hun Sen / launch / midterm review / Ministry of Planning / National Strategic Development Plan 2009-2013 / poverty / poverty reduction / Prime Minister Hun Sen / progress / UNDP / UNICEF
The government has made “remarkable development progress” in successfully guiding the country through the global financial crash of 2008, ensuring economic stability and enabling the government to meet the Cambodian Millennium Development Goal on poverty reduction, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. Speaking at the launch ...
Forum On Women's Entrepreneurship Promotion
- 29 November 2013
- The Southeast Asia Weekly
- Economy and commerce / Gender / Social development / The poor / Women in development
- 2015 / announcement / CMDG3 / development partners / Dr Ing Kantha Phavi / empowerment of women / entrepreneurs / gender equality / Government / Ing Kantha Phavi / Ministry of Women's Affairs / poverty / poverty reduction / private sector / women / women entrepreneurs / women issues
Her Excellency Dr Ing Kantha Phavi, minister of women’s affairs said: “Economic empowerment of women is a key strategy to promote gender equality and poverty alleviation and it is clearly articulated in specific targets under CMDG3 as one important goal among nine goals to be achieved by 2015.” Her announcement was made during the forum on ...
China’s ‘No Strings’ Aid Increasingly Attractive
- 22 November 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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- ABD / advocacy / aid / aid providers / annual budget / Beijing / bilateral donors / Boeng Kak Lake / Cambodia / Cambodia’s economy / Cambodian Development Resource Institute / Cambodian Government / Center for the Development of Cambodia / Chea Vannath political analyst / Chinese aid / Chinese aid / Chinese embassy / civil society groups / democratic country / development assistance / development partners / diversity / donor meeting / donors / economic reasons / evictions / Human Rights Watch / hydropower / international markets / Investment / Investment Projects / Japanese aid / Keat Chhon / loans / mining / Minister of Finance / Ministry of Finance / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / NGOs / officials / Opposition party / Phil Robertson / Phnom Penh / poverty reduction / rapid expansion / reform benchmarks / reforms / rights-based agenda / rubber / superpower / Trade / traditional donors / Untac-era development partners / Western development agencies / World Bank
The timing couldn’t have been better. After a week in which one NGO was suspended and others warned to “readjust their work,” and the World Bank was finally forced to reveal that it had stopped loaning to Cambodia, the government announced over the weekend that ...
The New Asian Century
- 28 November 2013
- Economics Today
- Economy and commerce / Social development / The poor
- 7th Asia Economic Forum / accountability / Asia 2050: Realizing the Asian Century / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Cambodia / Chinese aid / Competitiveness / debt crisis / domestic investment / Dr. Hang Chuon Naron / Dr. Thein Swe / economies / entrepreneurs / Eurozone / foreign investment / GDP / global recession / global recovery / governance / income growth / Indian aid / Indonesia / Inflation / Investors / Japanese aid / Korea / Malaysian aid / Ministry of Economy and Finance / natural resources / New Asian Century / Phnom Penh / poverty reduction / productivity / Professor in Economics at Payap University Thailand / prosperity / Secretary of State / subsidies / sustainable development / Tariffs / Thailand / The Asian Century in the Making: Achievement Challenges and Future Trends / transparency / US Economy / World Bank / World Development Indicators
With growing uncertainty in the US economy and an unfolding fiscal and debt crisis in the Eurozone after the global recession in 2008, Asia is expected to continue leading the global recovery. Under such circumstances, the 21st Century is emerging as the “New Asian Century”, ...
