In the eighth and final instalment of Southeast Asia Globe's collaboration with Future Forum on the Cambodia 2040 project, we sit down with the think-tank's founder Ou Virak to hear his reflections on the series.
«When the fate of the EBA is announced, the government will have time to react. Regardless of what the government says, this will be felt by the EU and its members».
Sokha’s trial and Cambodia’s EBA fate were two areas also touched upon in the series’ international relations segment exploring Cambodia’s ongoing struggle to balance relations between the superpowers.
Setha Rath, among the chapter’s authors, believes that Cambodia should, first and foremost, invest in human resource development through the competitive recruitment, retention and capacity building of the Kingdom’s currently low-status, underpaid public school teachers. This could be achieved, according to Rath, by increasing their salaries, thereby incentivising and professionalising their jobs.
If there is to be a real political will to reform, there will need to be a crisis unfortunately. I don’t think humans have the capacity to reform without crisis
Ou Virak, founder and president of Future Forum
This article was written by ALASTAIR MCCREADY
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