The Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition

Hughes, Caroline

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“…In 1979 they were placed in power in Phnom Penh by the Vietnamese Army and formed the Communist Party of Kampuchea. In the 1980s they tried to implement socialism, but after the Berlin Wall came down Hun Sen and his colleagues renamed their party the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), became democrats, and negotiated an opening of the political system (Hughes, 2003). Though this involved the return of King Norodom Sihanouk from exile and necessitated that Hun Sen share power, his party, the CPP, managed to reinvent itself as a democratic political machine.…”

Section: Case Study: the Reinvention Of The Cambodian People's Partymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development

Acemoğlu

Robinson

2010

Review of Economics and Institutions

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Abstract:In this paper we argue that the main determinant of differences in prosperity across countries are differences in economic institutions. To solve the problem of development will entail reforming these institutions. Unfortunately, this is difficult because economic institutions are collective choices that are the outcome of a political process. The economic institutions of a society depend on the nature of political institutions and the distribution of political power in society. As yet, we only have a highly preliminary understanding of the factors that lead a society into a political equilibrium which supports good economic institutions. However, it is clear that it is the political nature of an institutional equilibrium that makes it very difficult to reform economic institutions. We illustrate this with a series of pitfalls of institutional reforms. Our analysis reveals challenges for those who would wish to solve the problem of development and poverty. That such challenges exist is hardly surprising and we believe that the main reason for such challenges is the forces we have outlined in this paper. Better development policy will only come when we recognize this and understand these forces better. Nevertheless, some countries do undergo political transitions, reform their institutions, and move onto more successful paths of economic development. We also can learn a lot from these success stories.JEL classification: O10, P10, P17

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Section: Case Study: the Reinvention Of The Cambodian People's Partymentioning

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The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development

Acemoğlu

Robinson

2010

Review of Economics and Institutions

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“…The history of war, forest exploitation, and marketization remain embedded in resource claims at this site. After 1993, in the post-election "transition period", abundant forests were identified by the World Bank as key export commodities [60,61]. By 1998 all forests outside of protected areas were granted as forest concessions to well-connected governors and Southeast Asian corporations [62].…”

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Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest

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2017

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Climate Change policies are playing an ever-increasing role in global development strategies and their implementation gives rise to often-unforeseen social conflicts and environmental degradations. A landscape approach to analyzing forest-based Climate Change Mitigation policies (CCM) and land grabs in the Prey Lang Forest landscape, Cambodia revealed two Korea-Cambodia partnership projects designed to increase forest cover that are juxtaposed in this paper. Case study data revealed a REDD+ project with little negative impact or social conflict in the project area and an Afforestation/Reforestation (A/R) project that created both social and ecological conflicts. The study concludes that forest-based CCM policies can reduce conflict through efforts at minimal transformation of local livelihoods, maximal attention to the tenure rights, responsibilities, and authority of citizens, and by improving, not degrading, the project landscapes. The paper presents the circumstances under which these guidelines are sidestepped by the A/R project, and importantly reveals that dramatic forest and livelihood transformation had already affected the community and environment in the REDD+ project site. There are deep contradictions at the heart of climate change policies toward which attention must be given, lest we leave our future generations with nothing but forest islands and castaway communities.

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“…This translates, amongst other things, into a lack of integration of the domestic market and difficulties in competing in foreign ones. For another, domestic politics tend to influence the course of the economy (e.g., Hughes 2003). The nature and quality, indeed at times the very existence, of systematic and sustained economic policy making can be called in question.…”

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The Cambodian economy: ready for take-off?

Sjöberg

Sjöholm

2006

The Pacific Review

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Abstract. Cambodia is facing the familiar problem of achieving sustained rates of economic growth that could help it alleviate widespread poverty. Against the background of some encouraging developments, and quite a few that are not equally reassuring, we argue that any push for development needs to consider both agriculture and industry. This is so as both labour absorption, primarily in secondary sector activities, and productivity growth in agriculture are necessary to lift large segments of the population out of the poverty associated with subsistence agriculture, landlessness and informal sector activities. Given that the major success story of the past decade, the garments and textile industry, is under threat, we conclude that Cambodia is yet to achieve an economic take off.

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The Political Economy of the Cambodian Transition

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The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development

The Role of Institutions in Growth and Development

Forest Islands and Castaway Communities: REDD+ and Forest Restoration in Prey Lang Forest

The Cambodian economy: ready for take-off?

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