Cambodia

Cambodia: One Woman's Struggle To Beat The Floods

Chin Cheng Hong’s house is built on stilts, but so high have the floodwaters risen in Cambodia this year that even this was not enough to protect her completely. When the waters crept through her floorboards, she knew things were really bad. 

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Cambodia is a developing country emerging from decades of civil conflict and economic stagnation to being a dynamic emerging ASEAN economy. Cambodia has achieved impressive economic growth since the mid-1990s and has made significant progress in reducing national poverty. It is ranked 124th out of 169 countries on the UNDP 2010 Human Development Index. According to the Cambodia Socio-Economic Survey, the poverty rate decreased from 35 percent in 2004 to 30 percent in 2007. The government's Commune Database, which provides an estimate of the annual poverty rate, estimates the 2010 poverty rate to be 25.8 percent. The proportion of the population under the food poverty line is 18 percent according to 2007 government data. 

 

 

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Country at a glance 2011
Planned Beneficiaries1,420,763
Beneficiary needs (mt)38,005
Beneficiary needs ($US)35,999,703
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