DRIVING ALONG Hun Sen Boulevard-named after the man who has led Cambodia since 1985-a shiny Mercedes-Benz dealership appears in the litter-covered scrubland, its chunky white vehicles nestled behind thick plate glass. Beyond, the cranes and towers of Phnom Penh loom. They speak to the riches Mr Hun Sen's authoritarian rule has brought to a minority. But even the majority can testify to a rapid economic recovery since the end of the long civil war in the 1990s, and the final extinguishing of the Khmers Rouges, a Maoist movement that had forced all Cambodians to become subsistence farmers in the 1970s. Between 1995 and 2017 Cambodia grew at an average rate of 7.7%; gdp per person rose from $321 in 1994 to $1,137 in 2017, after accounting for inflation.
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机译:沿洪森林荫大道(Hun Sen Boulevard)开车,以自1985年以来一直领导柬埔寨的那个人的名字命名-一个闪亮的梅赛德斯-奔驰经销店出现在被垃圾覆盖的灌木丛中,其矮小的白色车辆紧靠厚厚的玻璃板后面。除此之外,金边的起重机和塔楼也隐约可见。他们在谈论洪森先生的独裁统治给少数派带来的财富。但是,即使大多数人也可以证明,自1990年代漫长的内战结束以来,经济迅速复苏,而高棉运动(Khmers Rouges)的最终灭绝是毛泽东运动,它在1970年代迫使所有柬埔寨人成为自给自足的农民。在1995年至2017年之间,柬埔寨的平均增长率为7.7%;在扣除通货膨胀因素后,人均国内生产总值从1994年的321美元增加到2017年的1137美元。
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