Tag: Cambodia

Dependence on development aid Like few other countries in the world, Cambodia has been dependent on development transfers for decades. Around half of the state budget is borne by the international donor community, in the 1980’s by the Eastern bloc, then mainly by the large OECD countries. In 1992, German development cooperation with Cambodia was…

Social conditions The war in the 1970s and the terror of the Khmer in the aftermath severely hampered the country’s economic and social development. The Khmer target was to cleanse the country of “harmful Western influence”. The cities were depleted, the residents displaced, the infrastructure decayed and people with education – teachers, doctors, engineers, intellectuals…