Cambodia's Silk Road to Poverty Reduction
International Trade Forum › Num. 2/2006, Avril 2006
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The story started with an exceedingly modest contribution of $20,000 to improve the new-born Cambodian Silk Fore in 2002. An encouraging on-the-spot survey of market possibilities in Europe for hand-woven Cambodian silk products persuaded International Trade Commission (ITC) in 2003 to put $100,000 in an Export-led Poverty Reduction Programme. The funding enabled 20 rural weavers in the poor village of Tanorn, 80 kilometers from the capital, Phnom Penh, to increase production and marketing of high-quality silk for export. Today Cambodia is exporting silk worth $4 million a year. In five years the goal is to export silk worth $25 million. Exported silk goes primarily to France, Italy, Japan and Switzerland, all countries with a silk tradition, as well as Australia, Germany and Singapore. The program to improve the Cambodian silk sector foresees the planting of a great many mulberry trees, which take only eight months to grow.
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Cambodia's Silk Road to Poverty Reduction
The story started with an exceedingly modest contribution of $20,000 to improve the new-born Cambodian Silk Forum in 2002. An encouraging on-the-spot survey of market possibilities in Europe for hand-woven Cambodian silk products persuaded ITC in 2003 to put $100,000 in an Export-led Poverty Reduction Programme (EPRP). The funding ...
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