Cambodia: Diversifying Beyond Garments and Tourism
In: Country Diagnostic Studies
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Cambodia Fast Facts 2013 -- Executive Summary -- 1. Development Performance -- 1.1 Maximizing Natural Growth Opportunities -- 1.2 Economic Development Plans -- 1.3 Macroeconomic Performance -- 1.4 Economic Growth by Major Expenditure Component -- 1.5 Monetary Policy and Financial Sector Management -- 1.6 Fiscal Policy -- 1.7 Balance of Payments -- 1.8 Sources of Economic Growth, by Production Sector -- 1.9 Poverty and Inequality -- 2. Critical Constraints to Growth -- 2.1 Human Capital -- 2.2 Infrastructure -- 2.3 Macroeconomic Risks -- 2.4 Microeconomic Risks -- 2.5 Market Failures -- 2.6 Finance -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3. Critical Constraints to Inclusiveness -- 3.1 Availability of Productive Employment Opportunities -- 3.2 Human Capabilities -- 3.3 Leveling the Playing Field -- 3.4 Social Safety Nets -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Diversification and Upgrading -- 4.1 Patterns of Specialization and Diversification -- 4.2 Into Which Products Can Cambodia Diversify? -- 4.3 Policies for Diversification and Upgrading -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Appendix 4.1: Product Sophistication, Revealed Comparative Advantage, and Proximity and Path -- Appendix 4.2: Priority Export Products -- 5. Summary and Policy Recommendations -- 5.1 Human Capital and Access to Decent Employment -- 5.2 Infrastructure: Electricity, Rural Roads, and Rural Water and Sanitation -- 5.3 Governance -- 5.4 Fiscal Resources -- 5.5 The Way Forward and Special Challenge -- References -- BOXES, FIGURES, AND TABLES -- BOXES -- 1.1 Managing Dedollarization -- 1.2 Socioeconomic Development Plans and GDP Growth -- 2.1 Growth Diagnostics Framework -- 4.1 Tariff Preferences Aid Diversification: Cambodia's Bicycle Industry -- 4.2 Institutional Mechanisms for Industrial Policy -- 4.3 Key Elements of the Rice Policy -- FIGURES.