Microfinance aimed to foster prosperity but stoked hardship for those borrowers who took on debt they couldn’t afford.

Welcome to the launch of our Cambodia Poverty Assessment – Toward A More Inclusive and Resilient Cambodia. My name is Maryam Salim, World Bank Country Manager for Cambodia. I am pleased to physically ...

Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty ...

Cambodia’s social health protection system, which is made up of two primary mechanisms, the National Social Security Fund and the Health Equity Fund (HEF), currently only provides coverage for certain ...

For almost a quarter of a century, a French NGO-backed hospitality school near Cambodia's Angkor Wat tourist mecca has quietly been transforming the lives of thousands of impoverished farming families ...

A neighborhood in Cambodia is a global center of the child sex trade. The people selling the children? Too often their ...

The Covid-19 pandemic ended a decade of unprecedented economic growth and poverty reduction in Cambodia and pushed about 460,000 people into poverty, a World Bank Poverty Assessment Report, released ...

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Wade Roberts’s love of Cambodia and its people began in 1999 when he served a church mission in Fresno, California, where he learned Khmer, Cambodia’s language. He loved his mission, the people he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sportswear giants like Adidas, New Balance, Nike and Puma are leaving Cambodian garment workers to “languish” below the poverty ...