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Table 3. Average wages, work-time, and vacation allotments in the

Greater Mekong Subregion in 2008

Country Minimum wage in Daily hours Maximum number Legal minimum
US$/month of days worked days of annual
per week leave

Cambodia 61 8 6 14

China 182.5 8 6 13
Laos 63.7 8 6 NA

Thailand 279.5 8 6 14
Vietnam 49.9 8 6 Limit of 12

Source: Compiled by the author and inspired by Bafoil et al., 2011, Developing
Dependency. Special Economic Zones in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region: A
Comparative Perspective, Capstone Report, May 17, 2011

In terms of social control, investors could rely on the solidly
implanted team surrounding the central figure of Hun Sen. In power
since 1979, as soon as departed, he was a young Khmer Rouge
lieutenant saved from the Khmer prisons by the arrival trucks of the
Vietnamese army and thrust into a leadership position. He quickly rose
to become the minister responsible for national property and later, for
foreign affairs before finally becoming Prime Minister. In each position,
he distinguished himself by plundering public property and misappropriating
funds, in the process developing a clique that, 30 years later, controls
every major network from downtown Phnom Penh to the entire
countryside. Predatory policies were designed with the single objective
of appropriating the profits from forest products, particularly certain
highly prized woods as well as from managing the temples at Angkor
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Wat. The electricity sector was largely privatized in favor of Chinese
investors and, over the years, China became the principal economic,

23 François Bafoil, 2014, « Cambodia : Political Capitalism and the Prebendal State »,
chap. 5, in Emerging Capitalism in Central Europe and Southeast Asia.
A Comparison of political Economies, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 87-104.

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