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Cambodia microfinance
February 02, 2023
Western Investors Are Losing the Ability to Shape the Future of Cambodian Microfinance
By David Whitehouse
The industry's foreign financial backers are now aware of the scale of the country's over-indebtedness – but they have lost the ability to do much about it.
December 15, 2022
Cambodia’s Micro-credit Crisis Reveals the Bankruptcy of the State
By Sam Rainsy
Over the past decade, microfinance has been rolled out against a backdrop of a profoundly weak and corrupt state.
October 04, 2022
Cambodia Microfinance Should be Taxed to Address Climate Change Impact, Research Says
By David Whitehouse
In contrast to the industry’s claim that microfinance allows borrowers to expand their businesses, many Cambodians "have no choice but to borrow to make ends meet.”
May 11, 2022
Is Cambodia’s Government Ready to Tackle the Problems in Its Microfinance Sector?
By Molika Heng
Phnom Penh's attempts to relieve its worsening rural debt crisis are yet to have the intended effects.
May 05, 2022
World Bank-Linked Watchdog to Probe Alleged Cambodian Microfinance Abuses
By Sebastian Strangio
Two Cambodian civil society groups claim that "reckless" micro-lending has contributed to a brewing rural debt crisis.
January 08, 2021
Can We Trust the Cambodia Microfinance Association?
By David Hutt
The CMA is an awkward amalgam of industry lobby group and regulatory watchdog.
October 09, 2020
Can Cambodia’s Looming Microfinance Disaster be Averted?
By David Hutt
A solution to Cambodia's spiraling debt crisis is urgently required, but risks uncovering deeper economic problems.
September 21, 2020
Cambodia’s Microfinance Industry in Troubled Waters
By Luke Hunt
A conversation with economist Ron Bevacqua about the crisis facing Cambodia's microfinance sector.
October 03, 2019
The Macro Challenges in Cambodia’s Microfinance Sector
By David Hutt
A closer look at an alarming trend.
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