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NORTON UNIVERSITY
Department: Economics, Year: IV
Session: Evening
Group: E2 (Development Economics)
HOW TO MAKE RURAL DEVELOPMENT MORE
EFFECTIVELY?
Submitted to:
Pou Sovann, Ph.D
Submitted by:
Hing Many
Sieng Mai
Pou Sokvisal
Seng Bunvirak
Academics Year
2011-2012
Contents I. Problem Statement .................................................................................................................................. 1
II. Objectives ............................................................................................................................................... 1
III. Main Contents ..................................................................................................................................... 2
A. The Challenges of rural development ................................................................................................. 2
a. Land Issues ...................................................................................................................................... 2
b. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) .......................................................................................... 3
B. Exploring the government strategy which help to support the rural development ............................. 3
a. Improving Rural Livelihood ........................................................................................................... 3
b. Improving Access to Land .............................................................................................................. 4
c. Land Distribution ............................................................................................................................ 5
d. Promoting Agricultural Development ............................................................................................. 5
e. Road and Transport ......................................................................................................................... 5
C. Major Driver of Rural Development ................................................................................................... 6
a. Effective Land Reform.................................................................................................................... 6
b. Rural Infrastructure ......................................................................................................................... 7
c. Rural Financial Services ................................................................................................................. 8
d. Dynamic Agricultural Sector .......................................................................................................... 9
e. Rural Nonfarm Enterprises ........................................................................................................... 10
IV. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 10
V. Recommendations ................................................................................................................................. 10
VI. References ......................................................................................................................................... 11
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How to Improve Rural Development more effectively
I. Problem Statement
As follow the government Rectangular Strategy Phase II in the 4th legislature, Cambodia has
10 priority sectors which the sectors that help the economic growth and poverty reduction in
Cambodia. Those sectors are: 1. Agriculture, 2. Water and Irrigation System, 3.
Transport Infrastructure, 4. Electricity, 5. Human Resource Development, 6. Labour
Intensive and Export-let industries, 7. Exploration of Oil, Gas, and Minerals, 9.
Information Communication Technology, 10. Trade. As stated in the above sectors
agriculture is one of the part and important sector that help to promote the economic growth
of Cambodia. According to the 2008 Cambodia census, the Cambodian population has
reached to 14 million people. Around 80 percent of them are farmers; farming is their main
occupation of the people who living in the rural area.
Rural area is defined as the place that located in the countryside or in the remote are which
is not have many people living there or not so crowded as in the city. Development is the
process that changing from something bad to be better, in short development is about
making change. Cambodia is the developing country amongst the other countries in the
ASEAN community and also in the world.
Agriculture is about doing farming, growing some of seasonal crop; raise animals, and doing
some off-farm work. All the activities are likely to do in the rural areas, so agriculture and
rural development is correlated. However, this sector is essential for Cambodia fighting
against poverty but Cambodia is still facing with the problem in the rural area such as
irrigation system, land tenure and also rural infrastructure. If the government desire to
improve the agricultural sector and want produce more productivity the government of
Cambodia should improve and develop the rural side first.
II. Objectives
In reflected to the proposed to the problem noted above, it will be necessary to find out
some of the Royal Government of Cambodia strategies and solution for this problem. The
following are the study objectives:
- To find out the challenges of rural development.
- To explore the government strategies which support the rural development
sector and with the priority sectors.
- To understand the major drivers of rural development
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III. Main Contents
A. The Challenges of rural development
a. Land Issues
Land is one of the most important assets which participate in the income earning for people
in the rural area. They live on the land, they making money from the land. People can
generate income from the land through many activities: farming, doing seasonal crops and
raising livestock...etc. So what will happen if the land which they are own being destroyed?
In case of Cambodia, 80 percent of people living in the rural area and most of them are live
by depend on doing the agricultural activities, which mean they mostly depend on land.
Currently, in many provinces in Cambodia are facing with the land issues. The issues happen
when the international and local companies make the investment in Cambodia, especially in
the provinces. The companies take over the village and cultivate land of the local people
there illegally and using the justice to threaten them, they cleared their land which is the life
of them1. They are facing the livelihood problem, food insecurity, no shelter, no income, no
clothes, migration and especially this land issues have become the barrier in the rural
development sector of Cambodia.
The land concession system in Cambodia is is a good process that the government has
implemented. The land concession is the process that the government sign contracted for the
forest own company in land or forest in order to make the investment in the signed land if
not the government will claim the land back. The land concession is one of the successful
strategic that help the government in fighting against poverty. But not everything is goes
smoothly, two side to every story, this mean that if we do something one side will gain the
good point and the other side will get the bad point.
The theory of Pareto was stated that although the government is develop in policy or share
the beneficiary of the economic growth of one country one side must be happy and the other
side must be unhappy or get the bad affect.
Anyways, if we talk about the adverse impacts of the Concessionaries’ activities in Cambodia
we will see that many foreign own companies that granted the land is using the land illegally
and violate the Cambodia’s law. For instance, the logging concession has the range of
adverse impacts that concessionaries have on forest dependent communities. The illegal
logging of forest land concession was destroyed tree which pose a direct threat of the
livelihoods. In the case of violate the law, violence is usually happen between the forest own
companies and the people in forestry communities or the local people there. Employees of
the concessionaries have violated the rights of people living inside or adjacent to forest
concession on any number of occasions. Abuses committed by the company staff have
included denial of access to forest areas, intimidation, rape, and in some cases are in
1 2009 July-Dec. Land and Life newsletter. NGOs Forum (12), 4-5
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murdered. This is one of hardest problem to resolve and the barrier in the rural development
process.
b. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Cambodia is one of the poor countries in the ASEAN region, to alleviate the poverty, the
Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has set up a multi-pronged strategy in which SME
development comes into one of its fore front policies (Royal Government of Cambodia, 1996,
2001). Yet, the SME and manufacturing sectors in Cambodia as a whole are poorly developed
and documented, and less has been known about the field. Lean literature exists in both
forms, availability and the quality, therefore, effective and efficient policies has never been
made without sound data and understanding of the field.
Although the Government recognized the importance of the sector, significant legal,
institutional, and governance reforms were needed for effective SME development: (i) the
costs of doing business were high due to limitations of the regulatory and governance
structures, which demanded third-party support for even the smallest tasks involving public
administration; (ii) the absence of essential legal structures and institutions resulted in a
high-risk lending environment, which limited SME access to key resources, particularly
finance; and (iii) the Government lacked an institutional and coordinated framework to
facilitate SME development.
One more important thing that people in the rural areas is facing with SMEs is not only of the
policy to support but the money of establishing the SMEs of the people. The government has
the encourage the commercial banks in the country to provide the loan to them yet. Market
access is another hot issue for them.
B. Exploring the government strategy which help to support the
rural development
a. Improving Rural Livelihood
Poverty reduction is the most concern of the Cambodia government. Cambodia is one of the
poor country in the Southeast Asia also in the ASEAN Community, Cambodia is ranked 130th,
in the human development index2. Currently, the Royal Government of Cambodia have been
developed many strategies to ensure the quality of fighting against poverty. In order to get
succeed in fighting against poverty and improve the rural area, we must look at what are the
dimensions and the causes of the poverty in the rural poor. As the world population is
increasing, the Cambodian population is reached to 14 million. Currently, level of poverty is
largely result from high population growth, inadequate opportunities, low capabilities,
insecurity, exclusion, and vulnerability.
Although the government have been developed policies that help the rural poor but it the
policies these policy are guarantee to improve the livelihood of the people who living the
countryside yet, where vast of majority of Cambodia’s poor live. As we know that land the
most essential asset for all the people, especially for the people in rural area among any
2 Council for Social Development, National Poverty Reduction Strategy (2003-2005): Chapter 3:Dimension of Poverty
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other assets. Land can help them to earn money by many activities: cultivation, growing
crops...etc. So, to improve the living condition of the poor we must be sure that the people
have access to use their land. Water, forestry, forestry, and transportation are also the
factors which those components would expect to contribute to improvement in other aspect
of livelihood improvement.
To improve the rural development the first step which helped much is to improve the rural
livelihood by helping them to create more income. Based on the Sustainable Livelihood
Framework there three strategies which help people in the rural area to create more job and
income, these strategies are: Natural Based livelihood framework, Non natural resource
based and Migration3. As mention above land is the most essential asset for people, so it can
more create work and generate income by using the natural resource based livelihood
framework. Doing some on-farm activities will help resolve the problem of the poor. Raising
duck, livestock, grow crops and vegetable will improve the rural livelihood. Secondly, is using
the non-natural resource based livelihood framework. By using the second framework the
people in the rural area do not need land, forest, or fishing, they can earn the income by
doing some off-farm activities such as: Palm climbing, motor repair, hairdresser, carpenter,
and chef4...etc. Doing a migration is another good way for the rural poor who want to earn
more income. If there is anything to do in your home country or district or the income
generated from off-farm and on-farm activities does not fit to you, you should looking for
alternative jobs such as laboring outside home country or in neighboring districts or villages.
By using the above three Sustainable Livelihood Framework the living condition of the rural
poor, rural livelihood, and the rural development is going to be better.
b. Improving Access to Land
In order to improve the rural income by using the natural resource livelihood framework we
must ensure that most of the people are having land for making income. If not we have to
find the solution for them. Economic land concession is very successful strategy for helping
the rural poor to improve their land access. Land access and water are the two fundamental
natural resources for people, especially for the rural poor. In reflection to that, the Royal
Government of Cambodia has set out the land policies which aim to promote the sustainable
economic and social development, to decentralize land management and to reduce poverty.
Cambodia is the agricultural country most of Cambodian are doing farming. 80 percent of
them are occupied as farmers. But 15 percent of farm households do not have agricultural
land many of which are headed by women5. The improvement the access to land and secure
access to land for the poor in Cambodia’s country side will greatly contribute to reducing
poverty and ensuring economic growth with equity. The Interim Paper on Strategy of Land
Policy Framework has been created to help to improve the economic opportunities for and
reduce vulnerability for the poor. Those framework are: (1) land will administered in a way
3 Pou Sovann (2011). Rural Development slide presentation
4 PADEK (2005). A case study of Sustainable Agriculture Farmers in Cambodia
5 Council for Social Development (2003-2005). Natural Poverty Reduction p53
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which makes property rights legally clear and secure, (2) concessions for social purposes will
be made to distribute vacant State’s land to socially needy households, and (3) land will be
manage in an environmentally sustainable way, which provides the poor with the
opportunities for secure access to natural resources (especially land), to secure housing, to
credit, and to employment, and for investment.
c. Land Distribution
The objective of the RGC is to promote equitable land distribution. To achieve the objective a
sub-decree on social land concessions is being prepared, and the implementation and pilot
projects are scheduled to begin in 2003. The land distribution program will distribute idle
land in the private domain of the State to households identified with priority needs for social
land concessions. The program is expected to include schemes, which are initiated both at
local and national levels. It is expected to respond to the needs for land of the poor
households that are landless, household with inadequate shelters, and victim of natural
disasters, among others. This strategy of land distribution, the social land concession is
making the Cambodian poor that is landless happen with the provided land. They can feed
their life and making the income by using the land.
d. Promoting Agricultural Development
Majority of Cambodian population 85 percent is living in rural areas and depending mostly on
agriculture for their livelihood. Their livelihood has mainly revolved around agriculture and
natural resources use and management. Over the period 1993-2001, agriculture was the
major sector of the economy, which, on average shared 46.4p percent in the total GDP In
poverty reduction effort agriculture is remain a priority sector of the RGC. In promoting
agricultural development for poverty reduction also for rural development the RGC faces
challenges as to (1) how can agricultural productivities be improved at the farmers’
household level that would contribute to better food security and living standard of the rural
families, (2) how can natural resources be managed in a sustainable manner when demand
increases, (3) what linkages can be established to deal with agricultural commodities, and
(4) what supports are needed to achieve the three afore-mentioned challenges.
In order to achieve this goal and contribute to poverty reduction of the rural households, the
strategic objectives for agriculture sector are to: (1) ensure an adequate legal framework
and institutional environment; (2) strengthen capacity and improve knowledge system within
the Government, stakeholders, and especially small-scale farmers; (3) promote
intensification, diversification and security of agricultural production; (4) promote sustainable
natural resources management and conservation; and (5) promote agricultural product
processing and investment in agro-industries and strengthen agricultural marketing system
and market access.
e. Road and Transport
As with much of the economic infrastructure, the transport sector was severely damaged by
the war. Since the early 1990s, a concerted effort by the government and the donor
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community has been made to reestablish the kingdom’s basic infrastructure especially in
transport sector. Success has been achieved in number of areas, but much still remains to be
done.
The transport sector in Cambodia consists of Roads, Rail, Inland Waterway, Port and
Shipping (mainly under the responsibility of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, with
the Ministry of Rural Development responsible for rural roads and transport and Air transport.
Road transport is the only mode, which as nation-wide moved within the country. Road
transport services are mainly carried out by the private sector.
The road sub-sector in Cambodia consists of primary, secondary, tertiary, and sub-tertiary,
and urban roads. Most of the roads, apart from the primary network, which is improving, and
some of the main urban roads, can be described as ―poor to bad‖ with many sections
impassable to traffic.
The rural people have poor access to roads and other transport infrastructure and services.
Roads facilitate progress in rural areas-access to markets and employment, education, and
health care, particularly in case of emergencies, often hinges on available and affordable
transport with connection to small towns. Rural transport development and maintenance are
essential to improved quality of life and reduced poverty of rural people in Cambodia.
However, the rural transport network is inadequate. So far, among the total length of rural
roads in the country estimated to be 28, 000 km, we have just rehabilitated and constructed
around 11, 000 km (with earth fill and laterite surfacing). This network provides only about
half a km of roads for every 10 square km (1, 000 hectares). Most of the remaining rural
roads are impassable, particularly during the wet season
C. Major Drivers of Rural Development
a. Effective Land Reform
Rural development has been relatively more impressive and inclusive in economies where
effective land reform program have been implemented. The introduction of the land reform in
the development process, land tenure and land titling will increase the income by increasing
the agricultural output and generate income. These land reforms created a vast class of small
farmers with strong incentives to respond to emerging economic opportunities. The land
tenure reforms contributed to rural economic growth. First, the establishment of private
family farm with right to use land for a long period stimulated a drive toward improvements
in agricultural productivity and output. Second, the land reform is about the law time
extension period for the user right of households to 20 years for annual crop and 50 years for
perennial crop cultivation. These trigger a powerful wave of productivity and output
improvement with rural household incomes increasing.
We look through to the past experience of other countries which very successfully in the
development of the rural income. For instance, the People’s Republic of China has introduced
the household responsibility system in the late 1970s led to a remarkable increase in
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agricultural production, farm income and household welfare, and contributed significantly to
rural development and poverty reduction6. This strategy have led to the increasing the so
many productivity such as cotton and livestock.
The policy on land reform on the plantation land reform is the one of the best strategy to
help the rural poor. The introduction of the land reform program in the plantation sector will
product the mix results on production, productivity growth, and labor income in the reformed
plantations. This reform program can be motivate the farmer to do an extra activities on on-
farm activities by motivate them to crop more crop or vegetable for an diversify source of
income. Cashew plantation sector is the example of the plantation land reform program. In
contrast to this reform program in some countries they have passed a law to permit the rural
resident the right to buy and sell their agricultural land. In addition the rural infrastructure
facilities, improve access to finance will make the land reform more effective.
b. Rural Infrastructure
Road is the link between one place to one place, road is very important in the economic and
road is importantly participate in growth of economic activities. In Cambodia, infrastructure
in the urban area is not the problem, but the rural infrastructure is still the trouble for the
rural poor. In the rural area in the road is very poor, especially the feeder roads, so it's make
the rural people difficult to transport their productivity to the market place. And this is one of
the barriers in the rural development process. For those people in the areas with better rural
infrastructure have been able to participate in and share the benefits of growth widely. For
instance, in the People's Republic of China, we noted that the differences in rural
infrastructure across counties have strong explanatory power for subsequent consumption
growth at the farm household level in rural area.
The impact of high quality rural infrastructure on the quality of life of the rural population can
be substantial. Infrastructure contributes to inclusive rural development in many different
ways. First, rural infrastructure provides rural people with access to the markets and basic
services that they need. Second, it influences rural economic growth and employment
opportunities and thereby incomes and social development.79 For example, ―good feeder
roads can allow the supply of perishable foods to high-value urban markets, and the income
generated can be invested in health and education to improve the productivity of eventual
migrants to the cities. The role of rural infrastructure is very essential in economic
development, so the government should make investment on this sector and social
infrastructure particularly in irrigation facilities for rice farming; rural transportation;
communication; electrification; education; and water, sanitation, and primary health care
development.
In order to improve the rural infrastructure importantly on educational system, the Royal
Government of Cambodia has set out a “Rectangular Strategy” which will help to resolve
the problem. The strategy is going to provide and give opportunity for all Cambodia citizen
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access of education for people living in the urban and also in the rural area. It’s committed
that all the people all get basic education at least finish level 9 of educational system of
Ministry Education Youth and Sports education system of Cambodia. In respond to this
activities RGC in collaborated with private sectors, donors, and NGOs partners are increase
more number of scholarships for Cambodian poor, especially for female students. In addition,
RGC has constructed more school in the rural are to ensure all of villagers young people get
the education by commit to construct at least one primarily and secondary school in each
village in the Kingdom. In order to build the education system to higher standard the RGC
support the learning materials by provide more educational materials, equipment, libraries,
and laboratories, dormitories in some state university in Phnom Penh which make it easy for
students from the country side come to study in the city, especially for female students.7
c. Rural Financial Services
Improved access to credit, deposit, and insurance services helps broad-based rural
development and reduce income inequalities within the rural sector and between the urban
and rural sectors in a variety of ways. First, better access to credit facilitates adoption of
fertilizer-responsive high-yielding rice and other crop varieties and enables poorer household
to take advantage of opportunities in high-value agriculture. This contributes to farm
household income growth. Second, access to credit makes it easier for rural households to
respond to emerging rural, nonfarm enterprise opportunities. Third, deposit and insurance
services, where available and close to farm households, encourage the accumulation of
financial assets and enable the rural population’s capacity to better manage their risks and
reduce vulnerability. Fourth, improved access to credit also creates and strengthens rural
people’s perception that leaders are making genuine efforts to share the benefits of growth
widely. This creates broad-based rural support for leaders and contributes to social stability.
Most countries developed their rural.
In respond to make it easy for the poor people to get easy access to financial services many
credit institutions were created and finance the rural poor. Micro Finance Institutions are
participated importantly in the poverty reduction but generally rural people are assumed that
they are not able to borrow money from those institutions. Commercial banks and Micro-
Finance Institutes (MFIs) are not accessible to most rural and urban poor people who either
live too far from bank offices, lack sufficient assets for collateral, cannot repay high interest
rates or do not understand the rules governing formal credit procedures. As a result, most
people continue to borrow from relatives who require no collateral and charge little or no
interest for small cash or in-kind loans, or from local moneylenders who charge high interest
rates for short-term cash loans. There is also concern that an increasing number of rural
people who borrow from formal and informal institutions are becoming destitute, as they
have to sell land and/or other assets to pay off their loans.
To make it easier for those who don’t have assets for an change for the money lender
institution, the self-help group have been created for the people who want to access
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financial. The self-help group is a small autonomous, non-political group of people living ear
each other, and sharing common concerns. The come together voluntarily to work jointly for
their personal, social and economic development.
d. Dynamic Agricultural Sector
Although economic transformation involves a substantial decline in the relative share of the
agricultural sector in total output and employment, agriculture has played, and continues to
play, an important role in rural development. Some countries are far advanced in the
transformation than others, but in many agriculture accounts for a sizeable share of GDP,
and agricultural employment accounts for significant share of total employment. As ADB
points out in Rural Asia study, ―all the successfully transforming economies in Asia enjoyed
successful agricultural revolutions prior to their industrialization.‖ First, agriculture growth
has been a source of food, foreign exchange, and financial and labor resources for the
growing industrial sector. Second, agricultural growth contributed to the emergence of the
agro-industry sector, rural manufacturing, and the rural nonfarm economy. Third, agricultural
growth has contributed to productive employment creation for millions of small and marginal
farmers and unskilled labor and improvement of socioeconomic welfare of their families.
Fourth, agricultural growth has made it possible to keep wages in the manufacturing sector
at relatively low levels, contributing to manufacturing growth. Agriculture, it has been said,
had to undergo a productivity revolution to increase output and efficiency to perform these
functions successfully.
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e. Rural Nonfarm Enterprises
Rural nonfarm enterprises (RNFEs) include manufacturing, agricultural processing, and
service enterprises— such as rural tourism—are diverse in their characteristics, and
dominated by small, highly labor-intensive enterprises that play a significant role in inclusive
rural development. Their role increases significantly as the economic transformation gathers
momentum. They are important because, first, agricultural growth alone cannot productively
absorb the increasing rural labor force in agricultural employment and allow opportunities for
rural income increases even with rapid improvements in agricultural productivity. RNFEs can
make a significant contribution to employment generation. Urban industrial sector cannot
grow fast enough on a sufficiently labor-intensive path to fully absorb the surplus labor in
agriculture. Second, RNFEs can reduce rural–urban income differences and excessive rural-
to-urban migration. These enterprises are an important source of income for women, small
farmers, and landless workers. Third, RNFEs can make a potentially significant positive
impact on non-income dimensions of rural poverty. They can reduce the vulnerability of the
rural poor to various economic shocks, make rural economic growth more equitable, and
indirectly contribute to improvements in social indicators. Fourth, by providing smallholder
farm households with opportunities to transform into viable economic units less dependent
on agriculture, RNFEs can facilitate agricultural adjustment and reduce the costs that would
entail such adjustments. A more developed rural nonfarm economy reduces the need for
government subsidies to make rural development more equitable.
IV. Conclusion
In conclusion, although the rural development sector is facing some challenges but the
government of Cambodia is working very hard to solve the problem. In the RGC Rectangular
Strategy Phase II, one of the priority is Rural Development Sector that shown that the RGC is
motivate and encourage themself and also to the people in the rural areas that they are not
alone, they have the government, NGOs, private sectors, and more importantly is the citizen
itself.
By the way in the Cambodian Millennium Development Goals (CMDG), in the first goals of
CMDGs it to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, this is the ambition of the government.
Along the way in the rural development process is facing with some of challenges that may
lead to slow down the process but the RGC is pay much attention to help resolve the problem
as much as possible. Developing new policy, law enforcement, and land reform...ect. is the
RGC strategy that support the rural development process.
The Cambodia rural development sector is going to get successful and more effectively and
achieve the CMDGs goals number one by 2015.
V. Recommendations
The government should promote the SMEs sector by making some policy to
support this sector. As stated above most people have no money to establish
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the SMEs business, so the government should encourage the loan provider
institutions to provide loan to them with low interest rate.
Market access is another good way the help resolve the SMEs products
The government should control the unlicensed industrials that may harmful to
SMEs
Land reform program should make it more effectively, especially on the
economic land concession, they should control the foreign own companies
which signed contract with government by warming them do not violate with
the Cambodia’s law, take over land in the signed area.
Road is the economic infrastructure, most of road in the urban areas is not the
problem but some roads in the rural areas are severely damage, so the
government should spend more budget on the transportation infrastructure,
especially on the feeder roads.
Promoting agricultural sector, provide more skills to farmers, stop in using old
traditional farming system by changing to modern farming system, so the crop
yields will increase.
Promote the off-farm activities as their alternative jobs besides farming.
VI. References
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Managerial Functions on Business Success. Japanese Journal of Administration Sciences
(Volume 15, No. 2, 145)
2009. July. Cambodia: Small and Medium Enterprises Development Program (Progress
Report). Asian Development Bank
March 30, 2005. Cambodia: Forest Concession Management and Control Pilot Project (Report
No. 31862). The Inspection Panel
National Poverty Reduction Strategy (2003-2005). Council for Social Development
Nimal A. Fernando (2008). Rural Development Outcomes and Drivers: An overview and some
lesson (ISBN No. 978-971-561-629-4). Asian Development Bank
Overseas Development Institute (Nov 2002). ICTs and Rural Development: Review of the
Literature, Current Interventions and Opportunities for Action (Working Paper 192). Robert
Chapman and Tom Slaymaker