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Understanding Cambodia’s Pentagonal Strategy

A five-part guide to the government’s plan for growth, jobs, equity, efficiency and sustainability.

by Surya Narayan · 2 of 5 parts published

  1. 01

    The Five-Sided Blueprint for Cambodia’s Future

    A country that was once described as a killing field is now drawing blueprints for a high-income future. That shift did not happen by accident. In August 2023, the Royal Government of Cambodia released one of the most ambitious policy documents in its post-war history, the Pentagonal Strategy Phase I. It does not read like…

  2. 02

    The Five Pentagons: What Each Side of the Blueprint Is Actually Building

    Most national development strategies are written to be filed, not read. They sit in government archives, cited occasionally in budget speeches, rarely opened by anyone outside a ministry. Cambodia’s Pentagonal Strategy Phase I is different, not because it is perfectly written, but because it is structured in a way that forces accountability. Every pentagon has…

  3. 03

    Part 3

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  4. 04

    Part 4

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    Part 5

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