Tag: aid dependency

• March 14, 2015

  Hot Cambodia, a social view of the Tropics

  The current intention to explain why tropical countries are poorer than those countries in the temperate zone could touch a big variety of proposals, some of them of arguable position. For example, Jeffrey D. Sachs exposes that tropical regions have low agricultural productivity and the burden of tropical diseases: “As Sachs sees it, tropical regions…
• July 9, 2014

  Phnom Penh’s AEON Mall for a dreamer city

  I visited AEON Mall today in Phnom Penh. Fortunately there was not too much rain in the city, so it was possible to move in my favorite urban transport: tuk-tuk (still I have to check the urban bus.) Entering the 205 million dollars mall, I remembered October 1999 when I arrived for the first time…
• May 14, 2013

  Colonialism, war and aid dependence in Cambodia

  Cambodia is a great case for study topics such as technologies appropriation and social change. We have a country that was few decades ago the scenery of violent tensions and now is struggling to recover its lost time by joining globalization. Even we have several objections, it is true that its economy is growing and much has been…
• February 26, 2010

  A Word on the Meaning of “Free Education” And the Culture of Aid Dependency

  There is a fact that causes some conflicts for some friends when they know that our Don Bosco Technical Schools in Cambodia charge the students with a monthly fee. Why do you say that it is ‘free education‘ when you charge the students? It is necessary to clarify this element before it reaches confusions.