ABSTRACT
By 1995, Cambodia, for years a society torn by war, had become one beset by a range of new problems arising out of the relative peace brought by the suspension of the country’s civil war in 1991 and United Nations-supervised elections in 1993 – problems including how to achieve “sustainable” development in the face of rapid population growth, high unemployment and on-going environmental deterioration; how to combine social equity with a new free-market environment; how to construct something at least as difficult to build as Angkor Wat –competent government.
