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Economics

CAMBODIA
NEPAL
Aye Chan Myae (st116970)
Le Nguyen Lan Chi
(st116497)
Nikita Shakya (st116512)
Ying Lwin ( st116510)

Process
1. Form group (3-4 members in one group)
2. Select two countries in the same income group
3.
Choose
one
statistics
from
Development Economics subject guide on the course Google Sites
4. Draw graphs of three economic indicators:
GDP
GDP growth (%)
GDP per capita
6. Decide of a scope of your data analysis - continuous period or
cross-section). This depends on economic situations of the
selected countries and data availability.
7. Analyse one human development related indicator
8. Discuss findings of your analysis within your group
9. Present your findings in class

GDP
Chart 1. GDP (billion US dollar)
25
20
NEPAL
CAMBODIA

15
10
5
0

2010

2011

2012

2013

Source: The World Bank

GPD
Chart 1 clearly shows that GDP of
Nepal is greater than that of
Cambodia. From 2010 to 2013, GDP
has increasing year by year in these
two countries. GPD of Cambodia
increased in even pace, while GDP of
Nepal increased unevenly. In 2010,
GDP of Nepal was $15,994 billion and
in 2013 it reached $18,850 billion,
however, from 2011 to 2013, it

GDP growth
Chart 2. GDP growth (%)
8
7
6

NEPAL
CAMBODIA

5
4
3
2
1
0

2010

2011

2012

2013

Source: The World Bank

GDP growth
Although GDP of Nepal is greater than that of
Cambodia, GDP growth of Nepal is much lower than
that of Cambodia. Cambodia was severely hit by the
2008 economic crisis, recovery in 2010 was driven by
tourism and clothing exports (producing about a third
of GDP), supported by a good year in agriculture.
Therefore, its GDP grew consistently. In Nepal,
because of the global economic slowdown and a
difficult
and
protracted
post-conflict
political
transition, Nepals economic growth has not been
stable. In 2012, the GDP growth rate was 4.9%, the
highest achieved during the 2010-2012 period
covered by the previous country partnership strategy.
However, because the tense situation between the
main political parties and the failure in drafting a new

GDP per capita

Chart 3. GDP per capita (in US dollar)
1200
1000
800

NEPAL
CAMBODIA

600
400
200
0

2010

2011

2012

Source: The World Bank

2013

GDP per capita

Chart 3 shows that Cambodia has
greater GDP per capita than Nepal. Per
capital income of Cambodia rapidly
increased from 2010 to 2013, from
$782 to $1006. Nepal is heavily
dependent on remittances, which
amount to as much as 22-25% of GDP.
Like the GDP growth, GDP per capita in
Nepal reached $699, the highest point
from 2010 to 2013, and decreased to

Analyse one human development related indicator

EDUCATION
MALE

FEMALE

Nepal Cambod Nepa Cambod

ia
13258

ia
18350

2011 45740

59945

2012 37485

2884

44041

25697

2010

Table 1. Children out of school (primary)

Main findings
Education sector analysis After analyzing three
economic indicator ( GDP, GDP growth and GDP per
capital between two low income countries, our group
continues to investigate how many percentage of GDP
that the governments spend on educational sectors.
Surprisingly, both countries spend under 5% of GDP
for education in 2010. The Cambodian government
used 2.6% and the Nepalese government used 7%
respectively. Therefore there are huge numbers of
children out of school even in primary level. Table 1
indicates that in Cambodian, there are 18,350 school
girls dropped from basic education in 2010 and
25,697 in 2012. It is estimated that there were more
than 7000 school girls stopping from their education
from 2010 and 2012. However, in Nepal there were

Main findings
When looking at boys out of school in
Cambodia there are around 27% in
2010 and 89% in 2012 less than school
girls drop out school but in Nepal,
school boys stop their education is
only 7% lower in 2011 and 15% lower
in 2012. Therefore, the data clearly
show that both the number of
Cambodian and Nepal school girls
dropping out primary school rate in

Main findings
In short, from 2010-2013, both Cambodia
and Nepal had increasing in GDP, GDP
growth and GDP per capita, thought it was
still modest, however, it did not mean that
their education sector also improved.
Through our analysis about the economic
growths indicator (GDP, GDP growth and
GDP
per
capita)
and
economic
developments
indicator
(human
development-education sector), we have
more insight into the differences between
the economic growth and economic