Cambodia today,has a statistical GNP of 23.4 hundred million

dollars as of 1994, and a revenue that is about a little above two thirds 

of Tottori prefecture's in Japan. These facts depict that Cambodia is in 

a state of deep poverty.



	In the 1960's Cambodia had become capable of supplying it's

own food resources having the blessing of fertility and abundance of 

water supplies of The Mekong River,and thus being an agricultural country,

exporting rice and rubber. Due to the civil warfare and chaos since the 

1970's, the country was left barren, the means of producing cattle were

deprived and the number of the labor force decreased due to reasons 

including massacres.In the 1980's the people of Cambodia became one, 

and put in great effort to increase the productivity of the country, thus 

showing a major comeback, became rather close to the 1969 standards

of such as the production of rice and major grains.



	In recent Phnom Penh, there has been a movement in the rapid

growth of the number of automobiles, motorcycles, restaurants, the dis-

tribution of television sets, and rise in the consumption of jewelry and 

clothing, and there are enough commodities needed for daily life being

sold in the city. It seems to shows a superficial and steady economic 

growth. This is not true. There is not enough productivity, and the 

amount of domestic production for exportation are not enough either.

Since Cambodia relies on import for most of it's daily commodities, there

has been a large trading deficit, and it has not fulfilled a real economic 

growth.



	The state of the government is at a very crucial moment because

the national finance which had been supported by the former Soviet Union,

eastern Europe, and Vietnam, in the late Heng Samrin's government has

ceased, and the tax collection system is not functioning.



	In this present situation, the new regime is moving towards a tax

reformation while tightening on it's economy.Inflation has been stabilized.

The international community has approved of the country's efforts, and 

the IMF and the World Bank have restarted international financing, showing

a moment towards a brighter future.



	Cambodia's concrete political assignments include building a network

concentrating on roads and railways, and building information networks con-

centrating on telephone maintenance.The roads have been heavily devastat-

ed by civil warfare and have been left unattended.

These superannuated railways and safety measures keep speed limits about

20km/hr and speak for itself on how terrible the situation is.



	There are a little over 400 lines of wired telephones and a little

over 10 thousand cellular cables, but wires for the telegraph telephones 

are considerably worn out and sometime do not operate because the 

cables underground are paper-wrapped cables and make it impossible to

communicate when soaked in rain during the monsoon season. The in-

formation infrastructure is incapable of catching up to the rise in the 

number of cellular phones and the communication capability rate has 

dropped to about 30 percent. This needs to be improved as soon as 

possible also.