The vice of world politics is to judge a leader’s actions by their reputation, rather than the other way around. Perhaps because Hun Manet had never held a political or elected office before becoming Cambodia’s prime minister in August, and was so veiled in his father’s shadow as to be almost unperceivable, one could only judge him on his reputation.
Partly, the optimistic way Western democracies have responded to Hun Manet’s succession is a result of exaggerating the role of the individual above the system. When Cambodia is described as a “personalist dictatorship,” in which Hun Sen was presented as having complete control, it’s only natural to assume that change at the top means change entirely
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On July 28, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank Group, is set to decide whether to empower its own accountability and oversight mechanism, or to undermine the mechanism’s credibility in the pursuit of predatory profits.
An investigation into the IFC’s funding of Cambodia’s troubled microfinance sector has implications far beyond the country’s borders.
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