Original report from Washington
23 December 2009
[Editor’s note: VOA Khmer recently spoke with specialists in the field of natural resource management in developing countries and learned that Cambodiais not alone in struggling to use natural resources to benefit its citizens. The resource curse, where natural riches fail to help the poor, is a worldwide scourge, the global experts told VOA Khmer in numerous interviews. Below is Part 16 of the original VOA Khmer weekly series, airing Sundays in Cambodia.]
Local communities, civic groups, media and even law enforcement often have the least opportunities, if any at all, to get involved in the management of timber, oil, minerals and other resources, experts warn.
That means policies that are often set by international experts and the government are little understood by the people most affected.
Petter Stigset is a senior advisor for oil and development at the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, which works with Cambodian National Petroleum Authority.
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