By bne - Phnom Penh Office The World Bank has significantly downgraded Cambodia’s economic growth forecast for 2025, revising it to 4%, down from the previous projection of 5.5%. The adjustment ...

The World Bank currently defines Cambodia as a “lower middle income” country; Cambodia will need to increase its gross ...

The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a $60 million International Development Association credit to support Cambodia’s improvement of solid waste and plastic management. The ...

Amid global economic uncertainty and ongoing geopolitical competition, the World Bank’s economists have identified four key areas for local governments to address, crucial for sustaining growth ...

Both projects are part of the World Bank’s vision to give land and opportunities to Cambodia’s rural poor. Instead, they have left former residents in disarray without their farms or community forest.

The World Bank’s 2025 forecast for Cambodia was slashed to just 4.0 percent from a forecast of 5.5 percent in the June report. That compares with 5.4 percent growth in 2024.

During a March 26 courtesy meeting with Minister of Environment Eang Sophalleth, Salimata D. Follea, World Bank representative in Cambodia, shared that “Cambodia ranks as a global leader in REDD+ ...

International rights groups have urged the World Bank to condemn Cambodia’s repression and legal harassment of human rights organizations for their criticism of the government. In a joint statement on ...

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Tran Sy Thanh and World Bank Country Director Mariam J. Sherman have agreed to deepen cooperation on urban infrastructure development, with a particular focus ...

This means that, before approving any new investments in Cambodia, the World Bank Group Board should verify that the legal harassment of CENTRAL and Equitable Cambodia has stopped and its staff are ...

The World Bank currently defines Cambodia as a “lower middle income” country; Cambodia will need to increase its gross national income per capita to $4,516 to be classed an “upper middle ...