The survey (it can be found at htt p:// www.iri.org) gathered a sample of 1,600 Cambodians older than 18 years from the 24 provinces and a separate group of 400 Muslim Cambodians. Officials and their families were
excluded from the survey. 79 % of inquired people believe that Cambodia is going to the right direction because it has now more roads (76 %), more schools (61 %), more health clinics (29 %), more pagodas (21 %), more bridges (17 %), less poverty (17 %), more irrigation built (16 %), better water and electricity supply (11 %), good business environment (11 %) and more peace (11 %). 21 % say that the country is going in the wrong direction because there is more corruption (38%), still poverty (29 %), prices of goods are too high (29 %), nepotism (29 %), prices of crops are low for farmers 12 APRIL - JUNE , 2010 (17 %), business is doing poor (13 %), gasoline and energy is too high (12 %), not enough jobs (12 %), threats to take land from people (11 %) and poor infrastructure (10 %).
Read More in Cambodia Insight Website on Issue 2 Page 14.
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