Friday, June 03, 2011

The Mirage of the Cambodian Economic Development

Op-Ed by Khmer Observer
La version  française se trouve en fin du texte anglais

Cambodia’s stock market is expected to be on full operation in next July. As in many other economic sectors, Vietnamese companies (proudly outlined by the article below) will be one of the first movers in this market.

Cambodia is one of the least developed countries on list of World Bank with very low income per capita. Khmer people can hardly survive because of the pervasive poverty prevailing all over the country.

Moreover, there is no industrial policy, nor financial incentives to encourage Khmer local entrepreneurship. Khmer people are obviously evicted from all business and economic activities due to the lack political support from the ruling class.

The political decision to create the stock market in Cambodia at this stage of economic backwardness is obviously a way to organize a “double plundering”of Khmer resources (economic and natural resources).


The first plundering is taking in the form of control of Khmer economic sectors like rubber plantation, tourism, communication (Viettel), Oil& gas, etc. This plundering is being “hidden” by the so-called “Vietnamese direct investment” that no Khmer can check the real entry of financial amounts into Khmer national bank account or other account belonging to Khmer financial system.

The stock market represents surely an additional way to “steal” income from Khmer household through this unfettered and totally immature financiarization of the Cambodian economy with no foundation of real economy.

The current political process will obviously accelerate the colonization of Cambodia by Vietnam in the following forms: political colonization through the implementation of Hanoi’s politburo in every level of Khmer administration, demographic colonization through the politically organized settlement of Vietnamese in Cambodia in a very large scale and economic colonization through the implementation of Hanoi Corp. disguised behind the “virtual direct investment”. In this context, there is no doubt an asymmetry of information, which will have, as in the past, an incommensurable social cost for Khmer people. Khmer overseas people need to correct this asymmetry by undertaking the necessary actions to let all Khmer people know about the invisible part of this mirage of Cambodia’s economic development. Le Mirage du Développement Economique du Cambodge
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par Observateur Khmer

Le marché boursier au Cambodge devrait entrer pleinement en fonctionnement d’ici le mois de juillet prochain. Comme dans tant d’autres secteurs économiques, les entreprises vietnamiennes (cf. lire article ci-dessous) seront parmi les tous premiers opérateurs de ce marché.

Le Cambodge est un des pays les moins avancés selon le classement de la banque mondiale avec un faible revenu par habitant. Le peuple khmer peut à peine survivre à cause de la paupérisation croissante régnant dans tout le pays.

De plus, il n’y a aucune politique industrielle ni de mesures financières incitatives permettant d’encourager l’entrepreneuriat khmer. Le peuple khmer se retrouve évincé de leur terre et de toutes les activités économique et d’affaires en raison d’un manque de soutien politique de la part de la classe dirigeante.

La décision politique de créer ce marché boursier au Cambodge à un stade de sous-développement est clairement une façon d’organiser un « double pillage » de ressources khmères (ressources économique et naturelles).

Le premier pillage prend forme d’un contrôle et d’exploitation des secteurs économiques khmer tels que la plantation d’hévéa, le tourisme, la communication (via Viettel), pétrole & gaz, ect. Ce pillage est couvert par un habillage économique sous forme de soi-disant « investissement direct vietnamien » qu’aucun Khmer n’est en mesure de vérifier concrètement la traduction effective de ces statistiques dans les comptes de la banque nationale ou dans les comptes d’une partie réellement khmère faisant partie du système financier du Cambodge.

Le marché boursier tel qu’il représente à cette étape du sous-développement n’est qu’un moyen supplémentaire de piller des revenus de ménages khmers au travers de cette financiarisation délibérée et totalement immature de l’économie cambodgienne qui n’a aucune base solide en économie réelle.

Ce processus actuel purement politique a pour objectif d’accélérer la colonisation du Cambodge par le Vietnam selon les formes suivantes : colonisation politique à travers la mise en place du politburo de Hanoi dans tous les niveaux de l’administration khmère, colonisation démographique via l’installation massive, politiquement organisée, des colons vietnamiens au Cambodge et colonisation économique qui se réalise à travers l’implantation de la « Hanoi Co. » (entreprises vietnamiennes), déguisée sous les « investissements directs virtuels ».

Compte de tenu de ce contexte inédit, il y a aucun doute une asymétrie d’information, qui occasionnera, comme dans le passé, un coût social incommensurable pour le peuple khmer. Les Khmers à l’étranger ont pour impératif de « corriger » cette imperfection devant permettre au peuple khmer de prendre connaissance de la partie invisible de ce mirage du développement économique du Cambodge.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you KI MEDIA for posting both languages :French and English.
So,could some blogger learn to read
and write well.
Cambodians are using Vietnam products
than other countries in the world.
How to stop Vietnam products?

Anonymous said...

Bonjour à à KI-Media !
Bravo pour cette analyse très lucide et objective des aspects multiformes de la colonisation viet du Cambodge dirigé à ce jour par le tamdem des ex-Khmer rouges cryto-communistes et des derniers royalistes décadents !
Bravo aussi pour le bilinguisme engish and french ! Merci pour cette ouverture !

Anonymous said...

11:44 AM

Block all Viet investors to Cambodia!!!!

Anonymous said...

Koh Tral Island must not be forgotten

By Ms. Rattana Keo

Why do Koh Tral Island, known in Vietnam as Phu Quoc, a sea and land area covering proximately over 30,000 km2 [Note: the actual land size of Koh Tral itself is 574 square kilometres (222 sq miles)] have been lost to Vietnam by whose treaty? Why don’t Cambodia government be transparent and explain to Cambodia army at front line and the whole nation about this? Why don't they include this into education system? Why?

Cambodian armies are fighting at front line for 4.6 km2 on the Thai border and what's about over 30,000km2 of Cambodia to Vietnam. Nobody dare to talk about it! Why? Cambodian armies you are decide the fate of your nation, Cambodian army as well as Cambodian people must rethink about this again and again. Is it fair?

Koh Tral Island, the sea and land area of over 30,000 square kilometres have been lost to Vietnam by the 1979 to 1985 treaties. The Cambodian army at front line as well as all Cambodian people must rethink again about these issues. Are Cambodian army fighting to protect the Cambodia Nation or protecting a very small group that own big lands, big properties or only protecting a small group but disguising as protecting the Khmer nation?

The Cambodian army at front lines suffer under rain, wind, bullets, bombs, lack of foods, lack of nutrition and their families have no health care assistance, no securities after they died but a very small group eat well, sleep well, sleep in first class hotel with air conditioning system with message from young girls, have first class medical care from oversea medical treatments, they are billionaires, millionaires who sell out the country to be rich and make the Cambodian people suffer everyday.

Who signed the treaty 1979-1985 that resulted in the loss over 30,000 km2 of Cambodia??? Why they are not being transparent and brave enough to inform all Cambodians and Cambodian army at front line about these issues? Why don't they include Koh Tral (Koh Tral size is bigger than the whole Phom Phen and bigger than Singapore [Note: Singapore's present land size is 704 km2 (271.8 sq mi)]) with heap of great natural resources, in the Cambodian education system?

Look at Hun Sen's families, relatives and friends- they are billionaires, millionaires. Where did they get the money from when we all just got out of war with empty hands [in 1979]? Hun Sen always say in his speeches that Cambodia had just risen up from the ashes of war, just got up from Year Zero with empty hands and how come they are billionaires, millionaires but 90% of innocent Cambodian people are so poor and struggling with their livelihood every day?

Smart Khmer girl Ms. Rattana Keo,

Anonymous said...

cambodia must move forward in development, education, standard of living, etc, etc, despite negative report, perhaps based on bias from some individuals who have something against cambodia in one way or another. anyway, cambodia must not give in, life must go on and cambodia will always be cambodia forever. cambodia will be a country in the long-run. nothing can last forever, good or bad, you know! god bless cambodia always.