SIM Sokcheng

Senior Research Fellow and Director Center

Mr Sim Sokcheng is currently the Director and a Research Fellow in the Center for policy research in agriculture and rural development of CDRI. He has joined CDRI since 2013 as a research associate. He has extensive experience on leading and managing various research projects and doing research on agriculture, economic development, programme impact evaluation, particularly research survey with rural farmers. Mr. Sokcheng is a Ph.D. candidate and hold a master’s degree in Economics majoring in Development Economics from Kobe University, Japan. Current research highlights include research on promoting sustainable and inclusive agricultural development through public-private partnerships (PPPs) in agriculture and impact evaluation for community-based childcare for garment factory workers.

Email : simsokcheng@cdri.org.kh


SIM Sokcheng

Migration, Remittances and Child Schooling in Rural Cambodia

Growing rural-to-urban and international migration flows have sparked concerns about the investments in education of the children left behind in Cambodia. We draw on a panel household-level survey conducted in rural villages in 2014 and 2017 to analyze the relationship between parental migration and child schooling. The analysis reveals that c...

Economic Return to Investment in Education and Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) on Youth Employability and Entrepreneurship Development

As part of the UN Joint Programme, UNDP seeks to examine the relationship between the economic/ monetary returns at individual, household and national level of investments in education and technical vocational education and training (TVET).  Therefore, this study will be done in concerted efforts with the Ministry of Education Youth and Sport (MoEY...

On-farm Food Safety in Horticulture in Cambodia: The Case of Vegetable Farming

Despite being an agrarian economy, Cambodia imported vegetables approximately 70 percent of the total domestic consumption because the commercialized vegetable farming in Cambodia is inadequate, let alone the commercial investment in the export-based horticulture (USAID, 2015). Vegetable farming accounts for only around 2 percent of the tempor...