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 ...

The World Bank’s Country Partnership Framework for Cambodia for 2019-2023 focuses on improving the efficiency of the public sector and promoting private sector development, on investing in human ...

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 Group should investigate alleged coerced land sales and other rights abuses linked to predatory lending and over-indebtedness in the micro-loan sector, Human Rights Watch said today.

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 ...

The World Bank has approved $130 million of new loans to Cambodia almost five years after it placed a ... A World Bank spokesman in Cambodia on Friday declined to comment on the specifics of ...

Far from "Smiling Past Corruption" (Review & Outlook, Oct. 11) in Cambodia, the World Bank is confronting corruption head on in that country. In fact, it was bank staff in Cambodia who first ...

"The World Bank's last loan to Cambodia was in December 2010," said the bank's Annette Dixon in a statement. "Until an agreement is reached with the residents of Boeung Kak Lake, we do not expect ...

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 ...