Arbeitspapier

Cambodia's land management and administration project

This paper presents the case of World Bank support to the mass titling component of the Cambodia Land Management and Administration Project. This was a project for which there was clear national demand, as evidenced by the fact that the Cambodian government had already attempted to implement mass titling a decade previously, but had lacked the human and technical resources to complete it. The case describes a consensus between donors and a host nation government during the planning and approval of the intervention, which dissolves into conflict during implementation. Ultimately, the case raises questions about the ethics of intervention. When governments want approximately the rules of the game suggested by donors (functioning institutions to facilitate markets) but do not want a level playing field, how should this be understood and resolved? Must donors always be passively complicit in elite projects until domestic politics hold them accountable to their own rules?

ISBN
978-92-9230-807-0
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2014/086

Classification
Wirtschaft
Development Planning and Policy: Other
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Political Economy; Property Rights
Collectives; Communes; Agriculture
Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
Subject
Social spending
human development
aggregate welfare
child mortality
developing countries

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Biddulph, Robin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
(where)
Helsinki
(when)
2014

DOI
doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2014/807-0
Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Biddulph, Robin
  • The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)

Time of origin

  • 2014

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