High Living Expense in Cambodia

High Living Expense in Cambodia

            High living expense is one of many serious problems in Cambodia and is showing a hard challenge that Cambodia is facing now. Many people find it hard to live here for the incomes and the costs of living cannot be compared and are not suitable. Due to a low standard in industrialization, lack of materials, and human resources, Cambodia is not able enough to produce much and quality products compare to the number of people in the country. When the number of users is a lot more than what they can produce, the flow of importations from other countries, especially the counties nearby such as Thailand and Vietnam, is also increasing. This is why products are in very expensive prices because they have to include with high taxes of the importations. Furthermore, some people work hard and in a long working hour everyday but they can earn only a little money that sometimes it is not even enough to support for food in their families. Because they spend more than what they could earn, some people are living under the line of poverty. To others, they might have to have a strong saving and large numbers of them are having a low standard of living due to the prices of necessary things such as food, petrol, basic supplies, are going up everyday. Some children cannot continue to a higher education and those who are in poor families are forced or have to drop their classes or leave the schools; otherwise, they cannot help their parents to earn more money to support the living for the whole family. I strongly believe that high expense is really giving a negative effect to Cambodia in many ways and it is also the reason that the country is still in a slow development in every field.

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