Budget year 2003-2004

    This report is based on the study by a consulting firm BN Consult with Dr. Seng Bunly as the team leader. 1 The World Bank funded the study with additional support from the Bank Netherlands Partnership Program. The WHO provided initial funding for the pre-study fieldwork as well as continuous technical cooperation. The design and implementation of the study benefited from contributions from several organizations and individuals. Several departments and individuals from the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Health, the IMF, the UNDP, the WHO and the World Bank contributed to the Royal Government of Cambodia and inter-agency consultations in 2003 that discussed the need for such a study. Read More...

  Tapping the vast agricultural potential of Assam for a new Green Revolution

    Moinul Islam is a man with ambition. He is also a man in a hurry. As the early morning mist rises gently over his neatly furrowed fields deep in the interior of Nagaon district, Assam´s most densely populated rural region, this hard-working young farmer recounts how he turned his tiny landholding into a stepping stone to success. "I used to have only a few bighas 1 of land," recalls Islam. "I grew just enough for my family´s consumption because, after the monsoon, my fields had no water. I had to work on other peopl´s land to subsist." Four years ago, things began to change. With the help of the state government´s Assam Agricultural Competitiveness Project and a smal  Read More...