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Cambodia and World Bank expand development engagement to reduce poverty and share prosperity
The government of Cambodia and the World Bank today signed agreements for four projects to improve road surfaces, manage fisheries, improve livelihoods from agriculture in targeted rural communities, and increase access to health care, with funding from the International Development Association, or IDA, the World ...
Bou Saroeun
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2016/06/09/cambodia-and-world-bank-expand-development-engagement
World Bank to re-engage after five-year absence
The World Bank has approved $130 million in developmental aid aimed at reducing poverty in Cambodia, signalling its first direct re-engagement with the Kingdom since it left in protest in 2011 after one of the largest forceful evictions led by the government displaced more than ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/world-bank-re-engage-after-five-year-absence
'No Decision' made yet on Cambodia loans: World Bank
The World Bank has not yet reached a decision on whether to lift a ban on loans to Cambodia, a Bank official has said, contradicting local media reports that the international financing institution would resume loans suspended three years ago over allegations of violent land ...
Richard Finney
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/loans-10222014170636.html
World Bank meets Phnom Penh Governor, Boeng Kak evictees
The World Bank on Thursday asked Phnom Penh municipal officials to do more to help the thousands of families the city evicted from the Boeng Kak neighborhood to make way for a CPP senator’s private real estate project, and is now waiting for a reply, ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/world-bank-meets-phnom-penh-governor-boeng-kak-evictees-54189/
