Monday, 05 December 2011
Posted by Serath
PHNOM PENH, Dec 5 (Cambodia Herald) - Prime Minister Hun Sen (pictured) vowed Monday to reduce Cambodia's poverty rate to less than 20 percent of the population by 2015.
"The poverty rate fell to 26 percent in 2010 and the government is making efforts to reduce the poverty rate to 19.5 percent by 2015," he told a national forum, noting that the rate was 47 percent in 1993 and 30 percent in 2007.
Hun Sen also noted that the fall in poverty last year was accompanied by economic growth of six percent. Strong growth has enabled the government to increase the salaries of civil servants by 20 percent a year, he said.
11 comments:
First you must get rid of all corrupted provincial's officials throughout the kingdom sir..!!
Cambodia has the most corruption..
He can do it. Those 20% he is talking is his own official that still poor. so, the way it works is that he allows them to get more corrupted so that they can catch up and make money like other corrupted official. poverty lifted. great plan! every CPP win.
He will reduce the poverty rate to less than 20% by 2015 by allowing more vietnamese migrate into cambodia making cambodian to less than 20% of the total population; khmer become the minority in cambodia. By making vietnamese the 80% majority in cambodia, he will never have to be concerned about senate or the national election ever again
If the poverty rate really fall below 20% by 2015, more cambodian families can send their children to school. if he dares to do that, he will jeopardize is power and dictatorship because poverty forces children to with to support the family and to survive. With less poverty, more children will stay in school longer and the country will have more educated citizen that will want a reform or a new government.
4:18 AM
I think you might be right. If you see the Khmers population nowaday, they look kind of like Viet. Is it me or do you guys see the same?
Hun Sen is one SOB. I can see his strategy. He will use both the Viet and Chinese to keep his clan in power for a long time. The Viets will cast him the vote. The Chinese will run the economy like other countries in SEA. The poor Khmers will get the crumbs. Yes, poverty will be reduced by less than 20%, but who will benefit? His corrupted crooks and the foreigners.
This is a rhetoric that will not mean anything. Hun Sen said many things in the past, but he has not solved those problems yet, like he said he will stop illegal logging, but illegal logging is widespread now, he said he will reduce corruption, but corruption is growing. I will never trust what Hun Sen said. With the level of corruption that we see today, I don't think Hun Sen can do what he said.
:) In Cambodia they are reducing the number of poor man so they have the poor man land but they are not reduce the poverty.
Hun Sen is drunk again. PhD Hennessy.
No progress! As long as corruption keep rising...Illegally logging inside RCAF!!!!
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