Farming’s primacy ‘hinders’
Cambodia’s economic productivity is in trouble, struggling with an inability to turn a youthful population into a skilled workforce and stunted by an over-reliance on agriculture, according to a new World Bank report. In Cambodia and Vietnam, diversification of labour from the farming sector contributed to more than 70 per cent of both countries’ poverty reduction, the bank’s regional study, East Asia Pacific at Work: Employment, Enterprise and Well-Being, states. Yet 75 to 80 per cent of the population of the Kingdom relies on agriculture-based income, hindering productivity and creating a “volatile” economic output. … To lift rural youth out of poverty and farm work, the government has focused on improving access to education, with a Millennium Development Goal to achieve universal primary education by 2015. …
Laignee Barron
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