Economic history of industrialization in Cambodia

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The industrialization which started in 1953 had been completely disrupted by the chronic civil war and closed-door policy of successive communism/socialism regimes. Since 1993 Cambodia has embraced a market economy heavily dependent on foreign capital and foreign markets. As a result, the economy has experienced high economic growth rate yet with low linkage to domestic economy. The government's Rice Export Policy introduced in 2010 to diversify its economy, maximize its value added and job creation was highly evaluated to bring those benefits under the environment of weak governance. Whether similar kind of such a policy for other sectors is successful remains to be seen.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2013/134

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
• Subject: industrialization ; mixed economy ; cooperative ; garment sector ; Cambodia

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Chhair, Sokty ; Ung, Luyna
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/93708
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET