Oil: Curse Or Blessing?

March 2007 | Economic Outlook

On February28, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced that Cambodia expects to begin tapping its newly found offshore oil reserves by 2010, providing the impoverished South East Asian country with a much needed boost to government revenue. However, there have been serious concerns raised over how beneficial the presence of oil will actually prove to be, given the high levels of corruption that are incumbent throughout the

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