02007cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013010 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 15.00 USD 9781589064447 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ishikawa, Sumio. Cambodia : Rebuilding for a Challenging Future / Sumio Ishikawa, Sibel Beadle, Damien Eastman, Srobona Mitra. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006. 1 online resource (118 pages) <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Cambodia's reconstruction and reform efforts have spanned almost 25 years following the Khmer Rouge period, which ended in 1979. Economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s, but reform efforts were beset by ongoing internal tensions and civil unrest. Although external factors, including sizable aid inflows and a trade agreement with the United States, helped boost growth in the past decade, the country remains one of the poorest in the region. The current coalition government has announced a strategy aimed at revitalizing economic reforms, and in 2004 Cambodia formally joined the World Trade Organization. But elimination of the garment quota system under the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing is exposing an underlying deterioration in competitiveness, which, coupled with slow growth in the agriculture sector and other structural obstacles to private sector growth, has resulted in a medium-term outlook that remains uncertain. Mode of access: Internet Beadle, Sibel. Eastman, Damien. Mitra, Srobona. Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/books/058/00957-9781589064447-en/00957-9781589064447-en-book.xml IMF e-Library