Cambodia's land management and administration project

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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?

Object Details

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

References and Relationships

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

Classification and Topics

• 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

Contributors, Places and Time

• 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

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2014/807-0
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/103010
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET