Saturday, June 24, 2006

Cambodia and Corruption

The World Bank wants Cambodia to pay back millions in contracts they say were misprocured due to corruption in the Cambodian government. Prime minister Hun Sen is having none of this, though. He's asking for proof from the World Bank of the corruption before he returns any money. The World Bank has given non-specific information to the Cambodian government because the Bank wants to protect their sources. That's not good enough for the always honest Prime Minister (errr....right...), and he'll wait it out til he gets the information he wants. It's no surprise that this is a problem in Cambodia--it's still full of corruption. Hopefully as more pressure is put on the country from international entities like the World Bank, the corruption can be cleaned up and the country can continue to develop.

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