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17.
Phorn Bopha, “Hun Sen Encourages Cambodians to Emulate Chinese-Style Wealth,”
Cam-
bodia Daily
, December 30, 2012.
18.
Stephane Guimbert,
Cambodia 1998-2008: An Episode of Rapid Growth
(Washington, DC:
World Bank, April 2010), 7.
19.
World Bank,
Where Have All the Poor Gone? Poverty Assessment 2013
(Washington, DC,
November 2013), xiii.
20.
According to the World Bank, “lower middle-income countries” are those with per capita an-
nual income between $1,025 and $4,035.
21.
Daniel de Carteret, “Garment Exports Rose 20 Percent Last Year,”
Phnom Penh Post
, Febru-
ary 4, 2014.
22.
Gottesman,
Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge
, 318.
23.
Caroline Hughes,
Dependent Communities: Aid and Politics in Cambodia and East Timor
(Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program, 2009), 165.
24.
Sophal Ear,
Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), 136-7.
25.
While Cambodia's Gini coefficient fell from 0.374 in 2007 to 0.282 in 2011, indicating
lessening income inequality, the gap between the rich and the poor has increased in absolute
terms. See World Bank,
Where Have All the Poor Gone?
, xvi.
26.
Ibid.
27.
Binxin Yu and Xinshen Diao, “Cambodia's Agricultural Strategy: Future Development Op-
tions for the Rice Sector,” Policy Discussion Paper, Cambodia Development Research Insti-
tute, Phnom Penh. March 2011, 1.
28.
Ibid.
29.
For annual rice production figures for 1994-2008, see table at ibid., 26. For rice production
and export figures for 2013, see Hul Reaksmey, “Rice Exports Rise by More Than 170,000
Tons,”
Cambodia Daily
, January 3, 2014.
30.
May Kunmakara, “Million-Tonne Goal Still a Challenge,”
Phnom Penh Post
, September 28,
2012.
31.
Yu and Diao, “Cambodia's Agricultural Strategy,” 1.
32.
Ibid., 11. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization estimated that in 2006, just 9 percent of
the country's total cultivated area were irrigated. FAO statistics are available at
ht-
2014).
33.
One 2005 report found that medical issues were a greater cause of land sales even than crop
failure. See Yagura Kenjiro, “Why Illness Causes More Serious Economic Damage Than
Crop Failure in Rural Cambodia,”
Development and Change
36, no. 4 (July 2005): 759-83.
34.
Ear,
Aid Dependence in Cambodia
, 34. For the 2010 figure, see United Nations Development
Programme,
Cambodia Human Development Report 2013
(Phnom Penh, 2013), 158.
