We evaluate the impact of fiscal reforms on growth and inequality in Cambodia using a calibrated general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents (Peralta-Alva and others, 2018). Over the last two decades, Cambodia's consumption inequality and poverty have declined. However, income inequality...

Cambodia's growth over 1998-2008 has been remarkable (almost 10 percent per annum for a decade). This paper applies a "growth diagnostic" approach to understand how this happened and how it can be sustained. Past growth has been driven by the coincidence of a set of historical and geographic...

Developing countries have collectively displayed relatively high growth rates in the last decade. Although large disparities still persist in standards of living, low and middle income countries averaged economic growth of 6.2% between 2000 and 2008, pulling 325 million people out of poverty...