Analysis of Potential Impacts of Foreign Sanction on Cambodia’s Economy

Authors

  • Narith POR The Tony Fernandes School of Business of The University of Cambodia, Sangkat Toek Thla, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia

Keywords:

Potential Impacts, Foreign Sanction and Economy.

Abstract

Cambodia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contributed 0.03 percent of the world economy. Cambodia economy has grown around seven percent. Cambodia’s economy was led by growth in garment exports. Cambodia’s economy was related with other countries through exports and imports. The Trump administration has imposed visa sanctions against Cambodia and likely to make economic sanction on Cambodia. To understand the potential impact of the sanction, a research into “Potential Impact of Foreign Sanction on Cambodia’s Economy” has been proposed. Two research objectives were (1) to analyze potential impacts of foreign investment in Cambodia and (2) to analyze potential impacts on employment of Cambodians. This research focuses only trade sanction that limits or potential restriction of textile, clothing and footwear export from Cambodia to European Union (EU) and United States (US) as independent that would potentially impact on seven independent variables including garment and footwear valued added to GDP, Cambodia’s exports, products exported to US and EU, worth of textile, clothing and footwear exports, garment and footwear investment factories, employments in garment and footwear, workers’ wages in garment factories and footwear factories. The secondary data was collected. The data was collected from varied sources. After the data and information collected, data entry was done into Microsoft (MS) excel. The descriptive statistics like table and bar-charts were used for this research. The research found out that Cambodia’s economy was likely to be negatively impact from EU’s and US’s sanctions on Cambodia.

The impacts included reduction of GDP value, potential loss of Cambodia export of textile, closure of garments and footwear factories, unemployment and loss of workers’ incomes in textile, clothing factories and footwear factories. There are some recommends: maintaining good relation with EU and US, exploring new markets of garments and footwear products, exploring impact of the close of visa of some top government officials to US on Cambodia’s economy, the impacts of products imported from EU on Cambodia. The more studies on other scenario of sanction on Cambodia and indirect impact and impacts of foreign aid reduction or withdrawal on Cambodia’s economy should be done.

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2018-05-07

How to Cite

POR, N. (2018). Analysis of Potential Impacts of Foreign Sanction on Cambodia’s Economy. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 38(2), 75–88. Retrieved from https://www.gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/8923

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