PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Beat Richner, a Swiss pediatrician who opened a network of children’s hospitals in Cambodia at a time when quality health care was all but nonexistent in that country, died Sept ...

Stripped of the realities of human selfishness and incompetence, microfinance seems a perfect model. Include the poor in the financial sector, give them small loans to invest in their business or ...

Connecting remains too expensive for many rural poor, while solar stopgap measures prove insufficient for their needs.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Rumbling bulldozers at 2 a.m. sent residents of the Dey Krahorm community scrambling from their beds. The time for eviction had come — not of an individual, or of a family, but ...

As everyday Cambodians strive to improve their lot in the developing Southeast Asian nation, not everyone is comfortably navigating the journey to prosperity. Tales have become commonplace of poor ...

WASHINGTON, DC, June 26, 2020—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $93 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) for the Cambodia Land Allocation ...

Improving access to agricultural and residential land is a key issue in Cambodia’s development agenda as 80 percent of Cambodians live in rural areas. The majority of the rural population depends on ...