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A new United Nations report says Cambodia needs to diversify 1 the economy to help protect vulnerable groups, such as women workers, from downturns.


Ron Corben | Bangkok 24 November 2009



Young shoe vendor 2 waits for customers at the Central Market in Phnom Penh (file photo)



Cambodia's Elite 3 Suspected of Pocketing Millions from Oil, Mineral Deals
"The quicker we can do to improve competitiveness, the economic diversification 4 the better chance we will recover from the economic downturn," research consultant 5 Chan Sophal says.


A new United Nations report says Cambodia needs to diversify the economy to help protect vulnerable groups, such as women workers, from downturns. The report also calls for the government to see the current slump 6 as an opportunity to speed up structural 7 changes.


The United Nations Development Program urges the Cambodian government to shift away from relying on the garment industry, which is vulnerable to sharp economic shocks such as the recent financial crisis.


The report, released this week, focuses on Cambodia's challenges; the country has been among those in Asia hit hardest by the collapse 8 in global exports.


It says the poor, especially those in debt, have felt the pain the most.


The garment sector 9 accounts for about 70 percent of Cambodia's export income. The United States is the leading market but exports there fell by over 22 percent in the past year because of the recession.


Nearly all of the workers in Cambodia's garment factories are women, mostly from rural areas. At least 50 factories have closed in the past year, and more than 60,000 workers lost their jobs.


Chan Sophal, lead research consultant on the report, said Tuesday the lack of alternatives means more Cambodian women must work in the entertainment industry. The United Nations Inter-Agency Project on human trafficking sees more young women entering the industry. 


"Karaoke parlor 10, the massage 11 places and the beer promotion 12 industry, and all of those have women at risk in terms of being a disguised sex worker and at the exposure of diseases," Chan said.


The global downturn also hit Cambodia's construction industry, tourism businesses and migrant workers.


But the UNDP report says the crisis should be seen as an opportunity that spurs efforts to address structural weaknesses in the economy.


Chan Sophal says the report calls for institutional reforms, and more equity 13 in public spending to lift the economy and reduce the effects of external shocks.


"This crisis may represent an opportunity for the government to speed up the structural reforms which takes time - but now we have no time," Chan said. "The quicker we can do to improve competitiveness, the economic diversification the better chance we will recover from the economic downturn."


Recently, the International Monetary 14 Fund said garment exports from Cambodia would fall by as much as 15 percent this year.


However, the Asian Development Bank forecasts that the economy will grow just over three percent next year, as the global recovery takes hold and increases clothing exports and tourism arrivals.



v.(使)不同,(使)变得多样化
  • Our company is trying to diversify.我们公司正力图往多样化方面发展。
  • Hills and woods diversify the landscape.山陵和树木点缀景色。
n.卖主;小贩
  • She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
  • He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
n.变化,多样化;多种经营
  • The seminar was to discuss diversification of agriculture. 该研讨会讨论的是农业多种经营。 来自辞典例句
  • Firm diversification is increasingly achieved by the means of takeover and merger. 通过接管和兼并,厂商经营范围日益多样化。 来自辞典例句
n.顾问;会诊医师,专科医生
  • He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
  • Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来,加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。
n.暴跌,意气消沉,(土地)下沉;vi.猛然掉落,坍塌,大幅度下跌
  • She is in a slump in her career.她处在事业的低谷。
  • Economists are forecasting a slump.经济学家们预言将发生经济衰退。
adj.构造的,组织的,建筑(用)的
  • The storm caused no structural damage.风暴没有造成建筑结构方面的破坏。
  • The North American continent is made up of three great structural entities.北美大陆是由三个构造单元组成的。
vi.累倒;昏倒;倒塌;塌陷
  • The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
  • The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
n.部门,部分;防御地段,防区;扇形
  • The export sector will aid the economic recovery. 出口产业将促进经济复苏。
  • The enemy have attacked the British sector.敌人已进攻英国防区。
n.店铺,营业室;会客室,客厅
  • She was lying on a small settee in the parlor.她躺在客厅的一张小长椅上。
  • Is there a pizza parlor in the neighborhood?附近有没有比萨店?
n.按摩,揉;vt.按摩,揉,美化,奉承,篡改数据
  • He is really quite skilled in doing massage.他的按摩技术确实不错。
  • Massage helps relieve the tension in one's muscles.按摩可使僵硬的肌肉松弛。
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
n.公正,公平,(无固定利息的)股票
  • They shared the work of the house with equity.他们公平地分担家务。
  • To capture his equity,Murphy must either sell or refinance.要获得资产净值,墨菲必须出售或者重新融资。
adj.货币的,钱的;通货的;金融的;财政的
  • The monetary system of some countries used to be based on gold.过去有些国家的货币制度是金本位制的。
  • Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。
学英语单词
acroama
aecocs
angiocardiopathy
archaeols
Bambel
Basauri
batarism
black calla
black opals
British Chamber of Shipping
bromometric titration
cheer-leaders
chesnais
coagulases
coefficient of visocosity
colored crayon
cone baffle classifier
cyclophoruss
desk organiser
detainees
dividend payable in capital stock
downhill
drug legislation
efter
Elizabeth Pt.
eluents
emblazoning
embolismatical
environmental simulation test
Equitable Distribution
experimentalizing
Eyre, L.
fair-price shop
fallacy of division
first grading
five - o'clock
fork structure of bubble device
fortran based graphics package
freely rotating polymer chain
frequency channel
germinating and growing in water
Hardheim
have one's tail up
headtilt
High Definition Multimedia Interface
high-mass x-ray binary
hydraulic-ram
induction electrical log
industry jargon
internuclear separation
iterative programming
job hunting
kusnitz
Lake Taiye
late-payment
leuk(a)emic
long vernier
lotze
Luke Air Force Base
Lycaeon
manjuice
mild-to-moderate
military communication satellite
milk protein
Monsec
multi-body position fixing
musharraf
mutual magnetic flux
net operating time
not the ghost of an idea
Nozaki-jima
off-field
onychitis
Paronychieae
receded disk impeller
redox analyser
respiration anesthesia
rosbif
salt cake pan
scutes
sea of instability
sheriffry
sign of aggregation
slantiness
speed change valve
sprout inhibition
sun worship
termination phase
thermophilic bacterium
touchprint
transportation advertising
turks head rolls
vacuum ion pump
vacuum steel
Valkyrs
variable bindings
vvips
welding torch pipe
wintersome
wiremen
ziphioid
zoophile