Making Growth Green and Inclusive: The Case of Cambodia

Essam Yassin Mohammed, Shannon Wang and Gary Kawaguchi
Additional contact information
Essam Yassin Mohammed: International Institute for Environment and Development
Shannon Wang: OECD
Gary Kawaguchi: Pannasastra University of Cambodia

No 2013/8, OECD Green Growth Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Developing countries have collectively displayed relatively high growth rates in the last decade. Although large disparities still persist in standards of living, low and middle income countries averaged economic growth of 6.2% between 2000 and 2008, pulling 325 million people out of poverty (World Bank, 2010). Global growth has been accompanied by environmental degradation and in some cases there are growing numbers of people still living in poverty. Key questions for development planning today in countries include: Can developing countries strike a balance between economic growth, societal well-being and environmental protection? Can inclusive, green growth be a way forward? This report presents a case study on Cambodia designed to answer these questions. The case study draws on several sources of information to compile a “snapshot” of the situation today. In particular, qualitative information was gathered through a two-day, multi-stakeholder workshop and through bilateral interviews conducted with relevant actors from both public and private sectors. It also draws on relevant literature to present a balanced picture of the state of play on green growth in Cambodia.

Date: 2013-08-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env, nep-pke, nep-res and nep-sea
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1787/5k420651szzr-en (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oec:envddd:2013/8-en

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in OECD Green Growth Papers from OECD Publishing Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().