Southeast Asia’s Economic Research and Development Conference
Phnom Penh, 16-17th December 2023, Royal University of Law and Economics
About the Conference
Economic research and development is a crucial part of our lives. It contributes to economic growth and development in Southeast Asia even though this region limits the number of its human resources and capital to produce research studies on important topics that affect the livelihood and the country’s progress. The list of challenges facing our economies and people seems to be growing all the time. While many countries had not fully recovered from the “Great Recession,” the COVID-19 pandemic had hit our societies hard, against the backdrop of rising unemployment, inequality, climate challenge, and the political stability in the region.
While the underfunding of systems has amplified the magnitude of the e over the past economic and health shocksecades, it is concerning that voices are beginning to call for a return to austerity policies when we should instead be investing in the industrial transition, infrastructure and other social cohesion and resilience policies. Despite the efforts of each government, they challenge to offer adequate tools and implement effective policies to address real problems. In that situation, they require more input from academia and stakeholders based on formulating coherent policy proposals relevant to the real world.
The avenues of economic research in Southeast Asia are being developed both qualitative and quantitative, including the issue of conceptualization, methodology, modelling, theory, as well as empirically calibrated economic policy formulation. In particular, there is an urgent need to pursue research in economic development and social inclusion.
This conference aims to provide an opportunity for PhD students, young scholars, and researchers in the field of economics and social science to share their research and exchange knowledge in different study agendas and backgrounds, as well as to receive feedback on their work from senior researchers and practitioners.
Regarding this background, on behalf of the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE), the Young Scholar Initiative’s History of Economic Thought (YSI HET) and Cambodia Development Resource Institute (CDRI), jointly invite papers from PhD scholars and early career researchers for a two-day conference on economic research and development-related aspects that focused on Southeast Asia region or a specific country in Southeast Asia. This submission can be in the areas listed below, but not limited to it, and can have papers on economic research and development-related issues.
Conference Program
Conference program in PDF file.
Saturday, 16 December, 2023
08.00 – 08.30: Registration
08.30 – 08.45: Welcome and information on the event
Laurent Mesmann (Royal University of Law and Economics)
08.45 – 09.00: The Young Scholar Initiative (YSI)
Sattwick Dey Biswas (Coordinator, History of Economic Thought Working Group, Young Scholars Initiative, INET)
09.00 – 09.30: Break for coffee
09.30 – 12.00: PLENARY SESSION I – HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Chair: Sattwick Dey Biswas (Young Scholars Initiative)
Women Economists in the Global North and Global South: The Cases of the United States and Latin America
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
The Japanese Proposal for an East-Asian Monetary Fund: A Reappraisal
Fabio Masini (Roma Tre University)
The Birth of Economic Thought and Debates in China: the Examples of Guanzi and Yán Tiě Lùn
Alexandre Reichart (Renmin University of China)
12.00 – 13:00: Lunch
13.00 – 15.00: PARALLEL SESSIONS A
Session A1: SOCIOECONOMICS AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
Chair: Sophat Phon
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Empowerment of the Corrupted Bank Middleman for the Poor in Rural India
Govindapuram Suresh (Online)
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health Care Among Aged People in Africa
Ndirangu Ngunjiri (Online)
Human Rights-Based Approach to Ecosystem Services in Rural Timor-Leste
Manuel Branco
Procedure for Export of Mango from Cambodia to China
Sony Nan
Session A2: EDUCATION ECONOMICS AND LEARNING TRANSFORMATION
Chair: Phal Chea
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Teachers’ Perceptions on Digital Teaching Transformation in Cambodian Education Context
Than Chhorn
The Effectiveness of Online Learning During COVID-19 for Students in Three Public Universities in Cambodia
Chanthol Hay
Family System Ingrained in Individualism as Cornucopia of Human and Knowledge Capital: A Happenstance of Long Run GDP per Capita Growth
Arjun Krishna
Convergence in Human Capital Across Countries
Monyoudom Yang
Session A3: LABOR ECONOMICS AND LABOR MOBILITY
Chair: Raymond Leos
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Does Pantawid Pamilya Reduces Incentive to Work Abroad: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Harvey Niere
Does Engagement in Market-Based Activities Enhance Women's Ability in India? Evidence from a Panel Data Analysis
Annesha Mukherjee
The Role of Labor Migration in Providing Employment
Ulugbek Narmanov (Online)
Economic Growth and Informalisation: An Empirical Analysis of Indian Labour Market Since 1980
Manikantha Nataraj (Online)
15.00 – 15.30: Break for coffee and relocating
15.30 – 17.30: PLENARY SESSION II – POLITICAL ECONOMY AND MACROECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Sophat Phon (Ministry of Commerce)
Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics
Danilo Spinola (Birmingham City University) (Online)
Political Economy of International Trade Theory and Policy
Arpan Ganguly (FLAME University)
18.30 – 20.30: Welcome dinner
Sunday, 17 December, 2023
8.30 – 10.00: PARALLEL SESSIONS B
Session B1: MONETARY POLICY AND BANKING SYSTEM
Chair: Adam Kerenyi
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Bringing Marx Minsky Together: Notes on Financial Instability
Renan Ferreira de Araujo (Online)
The Determinants of Real Money Demand in Cambodia: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model
Siphat Lim
The Rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies
Adam Kerenyi
Session B2: POLITICAL ECONOMY AND LOCAL FIRM DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Arpan Ganguly
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Urban Political Economy: How Green and Smart Cities Policies Reshape Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dolorès Bertrais
The Economic Uncertainty Caused by COVID-19 and Its Impact on SME Strategies for Growth in Cambodia
Kvanthai Ing
Response to Covid-19 in Fisheries and Seafood Processing Community of Migrant Workers in Thailand
Wai Yan Phyo Naing (Online)
Inequality in Economic Shock Exposures Across the Global Firm-Level Supply Network
Abhijit Chakraborty (Online)
Session B3: INDUSTRIAL TRANSITION AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
The Birth of Economic Thought in India: from the “Vedas” to Kautilya’s “Arthashastra”
Leonardo de Vio
Modelling the Technical Efficiency of Manufacturing Industry in India: A Stochastic Frontier Approach
Arumugam Sankaran
Trade and Mobility: Evidence from Cambodia
Deeksha Kokas (Online)
Space: An Opportunity to Foster, Cooperation, Innovation and Technological Advancement
Riccardo Corrado
10.00 – 10.30: Break for coffee and relocating
10:30 – 12:00: PLENARY SESSION III – STEM EDUCATION IN CAMBODIA AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Adam Kerenyi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Are Students Financially Incentivized to Enroll in STEM Majors in Cambodian Higher Education?
Phal Chea (Cambodia Development Resource Institute)
Nature-Based Solutions and Its Economic Value for Urban Climate Resilient
Phanith Chou (Royal University of Phnom Penh)
12.00 – 13:30: Lunch
13.30 – 15.30: PARALLEL SESSIONS C
Session C1: AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND CLIMATE RESILIENT
Chair: Phanith Chou
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Modelling the Effect of Climate Change on the Agricultural Development of Thailand: Evidence from Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Technique
Mari Anand
Cambodian Cassava and COVID-19: An Analysis on Production, Productivity and Gender
Kosal Nith
Estimating the Longitudinal Effect of Agro-based Raw Materials Imports on Agricultural Development in India: Evidence from ARDL Model
Suresh Esakki
The Changes of the EU’s Trade Preferences and Their Impact in Cambodia
Pingting Song
Session C2: FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Kirirom Cheav
3 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Unlocking Economic Potential: FDI and Connectivity in India-Mekong Subregion Relations
Apila Sangtam (Online)
Degrees of Social Embeddedness of Capitalism: A Novel Index
Bernadette Louise Halili (Online)
Effects of Forced Formalization (Demonetization) in the Indian Economy
Nischal Dhungel (Online)
Session C3: GENDER INEQUALITY IN THE LABOR MARKET AND FEMINIST ECONOMICS
Chair: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
Export and Labor Market Outcomes: A Supply Chain Perspective ¬– Evidence From Vietnam
Deeksha Kokas (Online)
Women’s Work and Networks: A Case Study on Women Belonging to Specific Occupations in Kolkata, India
Srimanjori Guha
Promoting Gender Equality, Diversity, and Social Inclusion for Economic Recovery: A Case Study of Myanmar
Myo Zin Oo (Online)
Impact of Location and Region on Earnings of Self-Employed Female Artisans of India
Satyaki Dasgupta (Online)
Session C4: INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND TRADE
Chair: Sopheak Srun
4 presenters: 20 min + 10 min discussion
The Effect of ASEAN Exports to the United States (US) During the Trade Tension between the US and China
Bounlert Vanhnalat
Economic Development in India: A Comparative Analysis of Krisha Bharadwaj and Utsa Patnaik
Sudipa Sutradhar
To What Extend the Socio-economic Factors Matter for the Subjective Well-being of Empty Nest Elderly? Evidence through Ordered Logit Regression Technique
Vivekananthan Kalaiyarasi (Online)
Role of Accumulation and Distribution for Economic Development: A Closer Look at the Contribution of Joan Robinson and Krishna Bharadwaj
Ishita Moitra (Online)
15.30 – 16.00: Break for coffee and relocating
16.00 – 16.45: LECTURE – Academic Writing and Research Publication
Raymond Leos (American University of Phnom Penh)
16.40 – 17.00: Closing remark
Sopheak Song (Cambodia Development Resource Institute)
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt is a Venezuelan-French historian of economics and feminist economist. She is a Professor of Economics at the University of Lyon 2 and Researcher at Triangle, ENS-Lyon. After her undergraduate studies in Venezuela in economics and philosophy, she got her master's degree and PhD in economics at the Sorbonne University, Paris. She has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Universidad de los Andes, Bogota-Colombia, Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte-Brazil, and De Paul University, Chicago.
She is the founder and president of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE). She has served as President of the French Association for the History of Economic Thought (Association Charles Gide) and was a member of the executive committee of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and the History of Economic Society (HES). With other colleagues, she created the History of Economics Diversity Caucus and was the first chair until October 2021. She has been a member of the IAFFE Young Scholars Committee since 2020, which supports and engages early-career feminist economists.
She is the director of the master’s program in History of Economics at the University of Lyon 2. Her work focuses on the history of monetary thought and on the history of women and economics. She is currently working on the history of feminist economics and gender economics.
Her history with IAFFE began with studying the origins of the field of feminist economics with some young scholars. She interviewed many IAFFE presidents and read some of their early works. Then, she joined the IAFFE Young Scholars Committee. She recently had the opportunity to serve on the Pre-Conference and Mentoring Workshop committee for IAFFE’s conference in Geneva in 2022. She lives in Lyon, France.
Prof. Fabio Masini (Roma Tre University)
Fabio Masini, BA and MS in Economics, PhD in History of Economic Thought (University of Florence) received a post-doc degree at the University of Pisa. He was Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Roma Tre, then Associate and later Full Professor of History of Economic Thought. He teaches Theories and History of International Political Economy and holds a Jean Monnet Chair on European Economic Governance. He was a visiting scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and Belgrano University in Buenos Aires and is the Managing Editor of the journal History of Economic Thought and Policy. He is the Secretary General of the Robert Triffin International. He was a member of a few National Research Projects (PRIN) and Academic Coordinator (Principal Investigator) of several European Projects. He published over a hundred papers and volumes. Main fields of research: European and international economic and monetary integration; economic policy and public intervention in the economy.
Assoc. Prof. Alexandre Reichart (Renmin University of China)
Alexandre REICHART is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Sino-French Institute of the Renmin University of China. He earned his PhD in Economics in 2014 with a thesis in Economic History, devoted to the French monetary policy in the 1980s, under the supervision of André Strauss and Laure Quennouëlle-Corre. He published scientific papers about monetary policies and theories, as well as a book in the History of Economic Thought and a textbook on Economics. He is currently writing a book dedicated to Chinese History of Economic Thought, with his colleague Wenjie Zhang.
Dr. Danilo Spinola (Birmingham City University)
Dr. Danilo Spinola is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at BCU. His research is focused on (1) Innovation processes in complex systems; (2) Structural change, economic dynamics and economic resilience, and (3) Economic Growth and income/wealth distribution. Dr. Spinola holds a PhD in Economics of Innovation from the United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), where he has also been a postdoctoral fellow and a MRes in Economics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). He published a number of peer-reviewed articles in relevant journals such as Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Review of Keynesian Economics, and Metroeconomica, and is currently part of the editorial board of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics.
Dr. Spinola has a long experience working as an external consultant for international organizations, such as the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET).
His academic works is centered on the challenges of economic development, especially focused on developing regions. (Innovation, Structural Change and Economic Complexity). His research mixes economic empirical analysis (time series econometrics, panel data analysis) and economic theory, developing theoretical models in the Keynesian and Evolutionary traditions.
Danilo is currently a module leader for the following modules: Economics for Sustainable Development, Political Economy and Labour Economics. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Prof. Arpan Ganguly (FLAME University)
Prof. Arpan Ganguly is an Assistant Professor at FLAME University. He received his Doctorate Degree and MA in Economics from Colorado State University. He has completed an MPhil in Economics from the University of Hyderabad and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Delhi.
Prof. Arpan has over six years of work experience and was associated with Colorado State University. Prior to joining FLAME, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI-ID) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Prof. Arpan’s teaching interests include International Trade and Finance, Macroeconomics, Economics of Development, Political Economy, History of Economic Thought and Industrial-Labour relations. His teaching aims to promote a heterodox, pluralistic, and interdisciplinary approach to macroeconomics and economic theory in turn encouraging critical thinking and intellectual diversity among students. His research interests are in International Economics, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Development Economics and Political Economy. His research focuses on the macroeconomic impacts of trade and globalization on economic growth, labour relations and structural change in emerging economies.
Dr. Phal Chea (Cambodia Development Resource Institute)
Dr Chea Phal is currently the Director and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. He has previously worked as a consultant for the World Bank, a research fellow at Kobe University, and an adjunct researcher at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Japan. He holds a Master's and PhD in economics of education from the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University, Japan. He has been actively involved in joint projects between UNESCO Bangkok and Kobe University, conducting various educational research projects in Cambodia. His research interests encompass the economics of education, education finance, higher education, learning assessment, and field experiments. He has authored and co-authored numerous scientific papers, including those indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases.
Dr. Phanith Chou (Royal University of Phnom Penh)
Dr. Phanith CHOU is the Environmental Economist. He Associate Professor at the Department of Natural Resource Management and Development, Faculty of Development Studies, Royal University of Phnom Penh. Dr. Phanith has a strong professional background and experience of more than 13 years in conducting research on ecosystem services assessment, environmental impact assessment, training, providing recommendations for policy development, implementing numerous projects, supervising Master and PhD students, and supporting development in Cambodia. He has demonstrated his capacity with government and international development agencies and private sectors, including Ministry of Environment, Biodiversity Landscape Fund (BLF), ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), Conservation International, CIAT, UNEP-WCMC, GIZ, USAID, UNDP, JICA, GERES, WWF, WCS, UNESCO, UNIDO, ADB, ADPC, EEPSEA, ICEM, and international universities. Presently, he is doing research on ecosystem services valuation, REDD+, economic assessment of nature-based solutions, sustainable food systems, and digital agriculture extension services.
Prof. Raymond Leos (American University of Phnom Penh)
Professor Leos completed his Bachelor of Arts (B.A) with honors in history from Claremont McKenna College and received his Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of California, Davis King Hall School of Law. He also did his post graduate study in the Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) program in film and television production at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Theater, Film and Television.
Professor Leos was the Dean of the Faculty of Communications and Media Arts at Pannasastra University of Cambodia for over nineteen years, and for nearly nine years, a senior adjunct lecturer at the Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) in Phnom Penh, where he taught courses in the bachelor and masters programs in international relations and international law.
He has also served as a Senior Parliamentary Advisor to the National Assembly of Cambodia and as an advisor to the Access to Information Technical Working Group (TWG), which worked with the UN agency UNESCO and the Ministry of Information of the Royal Government of Cambodia in the drafting of Cambodia’s first access to information law.
Professor Leos has been a consultant for numerous development projects in Cambodia, including those funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Union, and The Asia Foundation. He has also served as a technical advisor to several local non-governmental organizations and has forged ties with the business sector in Cambodia, through his association with the American Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia (AMCHAM), and as a member of the AMCHAM Board of Governors from 2014 to 2016.
His professional and research interests include developing effective legal frameworks for transparency, the role of access to information in promoting human rights, good governance and economic growth, and the social, political and economic impacts of new digital media platforms. He is currently at work on two book projects—one examining the history and the social, political and economic underpinnings of propaganda, and another focusing on Cambodian-U.S. relations during the Indochina War of the 1960s and 70s.
List of Conference Participants
Abhijit Chakraborty
Kyoto University
Adam Kerenyi
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Alexandre Reichart
Renmin University of China
Annesha Mukherjee
Centre for Development Studies
Arjun Krishna
Pondicherry University
Arpan Ganguly
FLAME University
Arumugam Sankaran
Pondicherry Central University
Bernadette Louise Halili
University of the Basque Country
Bounlert Vanhnalat
National University of Laos
Chanthol Hay
National University of Battambang
Danilo Spinola
Birmingham City University
Deeksha Kokas
Nanyang Technological University
Dolorès Bertrais
University of Geneva (UNIGE)
Fabio Masini
Roma Tre University
Govindapuram Suresh
IFMR GSB, KREA University
Harvey Niere
Mindanao State University
Huoteang Peng
Cambodia Econometric Association
Ishita Moitra
Kanchrapara College, University of Kalyani
Kaliannan Umaraj
Madurai Kamaraj University
Kirirom Cheav
National University of Management
Kosal Nith
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Kvanthai Ing
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Laurent Mesmann
Royal University of Law and Economics
Leonardo de Vio
Université Sorbonne Paris 1
Manikantha Nataraj
University of Strathclyde
Manuel Branco
University of Évora
Mari Anand
The University of Technology and Applied
Sciences-Salalah
Monyoudom Yang
Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology &
Innovation
Ndirangu Ngunjiri
University of Nairobi
Nischal Dhungel
Bard College
Phal Chea
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Phanith Chou
Royal University of Phnom Penh
Pingting Song
Keio University, Japan
Ponnusamy Rajkumar
Madurai Kamaraj University
Raymond Leos
American University of Phnom Penh
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt
Université Lumière Lyon 2
Renan Ferreira de Araujo
University of Campinas
Riccardo Corrado
American University of Phnom Penh
Rikhia Bhukta
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Sattwick Dey Biswas
National Law School of India University
Satyaki Dasgupta
Colorado State University
Siphat Lim
Royal University of Law and Economics
Sivly Houy
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Sokhimmarya Chea
Royal University of Law and Economics
Sony Nan
IIC University of Technology
Sophara Phorn
Ministry of Economy and Finance, Cambodia
Sophat Phon
Ministry of Commerce, Cambodia
Sopheak Song
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Sopheak Srun
Royal University of Law and Economics
Sreymeng Sros
Royal University of Law and Economics
Srimanjori Guha
Centre For Development Studies
Sudipa Sutradhar
Kanchrapara College
Sumontheany Muth
Cambodia Development Resource Institute
Suresh Esakki
The University of Technology and Applied
Sciences-Salalah
Taylor Coplen
Harvard University
Than Chhorn
National Institute of Education (NIE)
Ulugbek Narmanov
National University of Uzbekistan
Velmurugan Ilamparithi
Madurai Kamaraj University
Vivekananthan Kalaiyarasi
Madurai Kamaraj University
Myo Zin Oo
Myanmar Triaza Family: Education, Training
and Research Institute
Apila Sangtam
National Maritime Foundation
Wai Yan
Raks Thai Foundation (CARE International
Thailand)
Zhiyi Wang
University of California, Riverside
Pre-Reading
All of the papers that have been submitted for pre-reading are now available on Google Drive. These papers are for conference delegate pre-reading purposes only, and if you would like to use or quote the contents of any article you are explicitly required to contact the authors directly before doing so.
If you have submitted your paper and it does not appear in the list, please let us know as soon as possible and we will add it to the available papers.
We have tried to follow requests as closely as possible to have all papers that are under review or preliminary drafts excluded from the available reading material. If We have neglected such a request and your paper does appear in the list, please contact us as soon as possible so that we can remove it.
Travel and Location
Conference location
The Southeast Asia’s Economic Research and Development Conference will be held in the central of Phnom Penh capital, at the Royal University of Law and Economics.
The main conference room will be held in Hall G of Building G, and the parallel session will be held in Room G-34 on the third floor of Building G, and in the Meeting Room on the second floor of Building I. Another room for a parallel session on the afternoon of the 17th will be provided later.
View the location of the Royal University of Law and Economics, Monivong Boulevard, Phnom Penh, 12305, Cambodia on Google Maps
Welcome dinner
The details regarding the welcome dinner will be made available soon. The dinner will be provided on the evening of Saturday, 16th December 2023. Dinner is free of charge.
Flights
Participants are responsible for arranging their travel to and from Phnom Penh to the conference location. Direct flights to Phnom Penh are available from several ASEAN destinations, including Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Jakarta, and Singapore. Momondo provides a useful comparison and booking tool.
Transportation in Phnom Penh
It is possible to utilise many types of transport mode services once in Phnom Penh. The airport (Phnom Penh International Airport) is situated only 10.7 km outside of the centre of the city (in Phnom Penh), and buses run frequently. The cost of a bus ticket must be paid in Khmer Riel or US Dollars and would be a price of 1500 riels (which is less than US$ 0.25) for one person to travel into the city, and busses run roughly every 30-45 min, depending on how late you will be arriving. You pay for a bus ticket every time you hop on the bus (therefore, every time you change bus). The line operates from 5:00 am to 8:30 pm. Bus travel options can be checked at the local bus system operator app on a smartphone described below (which has an English option).
Once in Phnom Penh, there are various types of transportation services available for use. The Phnom Penh International Airport has located just 10.7 km from the city center, and there are frequent bus services. The bus ticket costs 1500 riels (less than US$ 0.25) per person, payable in either Khmer Riel or US Dollars. Buses operate approximately every 30-45 minutes, with the frequency depending on your arrival time. You need to pay for a bus ticket each time you board the bus, including when changing buses. The bus service runs from 5:00 am to 8:30 pm. For bus travel options, you can refer to the local bus system operator's smartphone app, which also offers an English-language option.
City Bus Official App (iOS)
City Bus Official App (Android)
However, due to the city's heavy traffic, local residents often opt for taxi apps like Grab and PassApp. For passengers interested in using these services, it is important to download the app beforehand.
Check travel times
The Conference will begin on the morning of the 16th of December 2023 (GTM+7); therefore, we recommend participants arrive the evening before.
Recommended activities in Phnom Penh
If you want to hit just one or two highlights, we recommend taking in the views of the Royal Palace and a stroll through the riverside, a walk through the Independence Monument, Wat Langka, Tuol Tumpang Market, and Central Market. If you like to understand Cambodian history, please come to visit the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Phnom Penh National Museum, and Choeung Ek Killing Field Museum.
Sunrise should be around 6:00 am and sunset around 05:30 pm (light from around 05:30 am to 6:30 pm)
There is much to see and do, and we recommend that you take an extra day or two to explore the city that we call home.
Contact
For further information, please contact the History of Economic Thought Working Group (het@youngscholarsinitiative.org) with CC Kosal Nith (nithkosal@gmail.com).
Academic Committee
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Lumière University Lyon 2), Sopheak Srun (Royal University of Law and Economics), Danilo Spinola (Birmingham City University), Tineke Water (Future Forum), Kiriom Cheav (National University of Management), Sophat Phon (Cambodia’s Ministry of Commerce), Phanith Chou (Royal University of Phnom Penh), Sattwick Dey Biswas (National Law School of India University), Raymond Leos (American University of Phnom Penh), Arpan Ganguly (FLAME University), Alejandro Márquez-Velázquez (Freie Universität Berlin)
Organizer Committee
Kosal Nith (Young Scholar Initiative’s History of Economic Thought), Sophara Phorn (Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance), Sophat Phon (Cambodia's Ministry of Commerce)
About RULE
The Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) is one of the top universities and the oldest public universities in Cambodia that first operated in 1949. RULE is a great place for students who want to specialize in law, public administration, economics, and informatic economics. Since 1994, the French Cooperation Pole at RULE has proposed a wide range of high-quality, dual-degree international education programs in English, French and Khmer languages, at both the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree, and available in the domains of economics and management studies. They provide a bachelor’s degree program in Economics and Management, and three Master’s degree programs such as Risk Management, Entrepreneurship and Project Management, and Euro-Asia Trade and Economics.
About YSI
The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) is a community of 20 thousand-plus students, young scholars, and researchers from across the globe with a primary objective of asking critical socio-economic questions that challenge the mainstream narrative, which has been accepted as a given. YSI is known as a community that provides a space for next-generation economic thinkers to communicate and debate with renowned scholars and experts of various social science disciplines. Of the 21 working groups operating at YSI, History of Economic Thought is the most nascent and had over 1,500 members interested in addressing the long-standing economic issues.
About CDRI
CDRI is a leading policy research institute in development working to contribute to a peaceful and prosperous future for Cambodia and its region. CDRI works to produce independent, objective, high quality policy-relevant development research, to maximise its accessibility to policy makers, influencers and stakeholders and to have it affect policy in five interrelated areas that are key for Cambodia’s sustainable development: (1) Policy Research in Agriculture and Rural Development, (2) Development Economics and Trade, (3) Educational Research and Innovation, (4) Natural Resource and Environment, and (5) Governance and Inclusive Society. CDRI undertakes its programmes and projects in partnership with Cambodian government institutions and their international development partners, other research and tertiary education institutions and civil society organisations. It disseminates its research knowledge and products through a number of communication strategies: conferences, workshops, seminars, broadcast media, print media, library collection and information sharing, small group communication and interpersonal communication.
