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PROMOTING WOMENS ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT IN CAMBODIA

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Asian Development Bank.

Promoting womens economic empowerment in Cambodia.

Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, 2015.

1. Gender mainstreaming. 2. Economic empowerment. 3. Cambodia. I. Asian Development Bank.

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Contents

Figures, Tables, and Boxes
Acknowledgments
Exchange Rates
Abbreviations
Executive Summary
	Introduction: Participation, Benefit, and Agency
	Womens Economic Empowerment: Status, Trends, and Emerging Issues
2.1	Status: Participation
2.2	Status: Benefit
2.3	Status: Agency
2.4	Emerging Trends
	Obstacles to Womens Economic Empowerment
3.1	Unpaid Domestic and Care Work
3.2	Low Literacy and Education Levels
3.3	Issues in Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods
3.4	Issues in Business Development
3.5	Issues in Wage Employment and the Garment Sector
	Women and Labor Migration
4.1	Migration from Rural Areas to Phnom Penh
4.2	International Migration
4.3	Migration and Participation, Benefit, and Agency
	Girls and Womens Vulnerability to Shocks and Crises
5.1	Poverty, Vulnerability, and Gender
5.2	Womens Vulnerability Over the Life Cycle
5.3	Girls and Womens Vulnerability to Macroeconomic Shocks
5.4	Girls and Womens Vulnerability to Natural Disasters
5.5	Multiple Vulnerabilities Inhibit Womens Participation, Benefit, and Agency
	The Institutional and Legal Context for Womens Economic Empowerment
6.1	Institutions for Womens Economic Empowerment
6.2	Legal Norms
	Policy Recommendations and Areas for Further Research
7.1	Address the Unequal Unpaid Domestic and Care Work Burden of Men and Women and Enhance Womens Human Capital
7.2	Increase Womens Access to the Assets and Resources that Enhance Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods (Land, Labor, and Human and Financial Capital)
7.3	Support a Business Enabling Environment that Recognizes Womens Specific Constraints and Increases Womens Access to Assets and Resources that Enable Business Development and Expansion
7.4	Support Growth of Wage Employment Opportunities and Improve Working Conditions for Women through Stronger Enforcement of Revised Laws and Regulations and Access to Training for Women

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