Over the past two decades Cambodia has experienced extraordinary economic growth, and become one of Asian's most open economies, especially in the services sector. In order to maintain its growth momentum...
Cambodia is seeking to expand its exports by tapping into high-value, modern services. A nascent and promising business outsourcing industry is focusing on information technology (IT) services such as...
Animation schools in Cambodia are using the power of international trade to reach the poor. Computer animation has become increasingly sophisticated in recent decades. It has moved from two-dimensional...
Cambodia has made great strides in promoting trade with its neighbors and raising its annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate to an impressive 7.3 percent in 2012; and this despite joining the...
Rice is the world's most important cereal for human nutrition, with an annual production of more than 450 million tons. However, the vast bulk of this tonnage goes to feed the domestic markets of the producers...
Despite joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) club relatively late in 1999, and then the World Trade Organization in 2004, Cambodia has made great strides since then in promoting trade...
The Cambodian Government has set itself an ambitious target of achieving annual milled rice exports of 1 million tons by 2015. In order to achieve this target, Cambodia will have to address several challenges...
Garments are Cambodia's largest export and constitute the bulk of its manufacturing sector. Cambodia's rapid growth in attracting garment factories has led to rapid progress in the alleviation of poverty...
Cambodia has experienced extraordinary economic growth in recent years, and become one of Asia's most open economies. This impressive growth has been largely driven by a boom in the services trade, with...
The silk sector in Cambodia is largely informal, small-scale and difficult to typify as a stand-alone industry in its current form. The sector is characterized by small-scale orders for tourist or domestic...
New analysis of firm-level customs data from the Lao PDR shows that export flows in value terms are dominated by large firms supplying the same products to the same markets from one year to the next. New...
There are significant differences in the characteristics of enterprises operated by male and female entrepreneurs in Laos. Firms owned by women tend to be smaller, are less likely to export and are less...
Previous surveys of enterprises in Laos have suggested that exporters face a heavier regulatory burden than non-exporters. The government has embarked on a major program of reforms to customs and trade...
The Indonesia services dialogue held its second half-day forum on 20 July 2010. The forum, which was organized jointly by the Coordinating Board for Investment (BKPM), the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce...
The Indonesia services dialogue held its second half-day forum on 20 July 2010. The forum, which was organized jointly by the Coordinating Board for Investment (BKPM), the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce...
The assessment makes use of information from three sources: 1) technical staff of relevant government agencies identified pertinent cost items for the various activities they are carrying out; ii) Cost...
The study examines legal and regulatory measures, border crossing procedures and institutional capacities affecting Lao agro-food exports and imports. It reviews the experiences of the private sector with...
New data from the World Bank's logistics performance index suggests that the Lao PDR has made modest improvements in connectively to international markets, particularly in measures of the frequency of...
Recent research by the World Bank team in Laos applying the, product space? methodology suggests that while the rate of export discovery into new products has been high, the Lao export basket remains undiversified...