Happy Âphivoat portrays Cambodia’s economic development, shifting from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, and its emerging working class.
After five years of the “Khmers Rouges” dictatorship witch brought the country back to the stone age, 10 years of civil war followed . After this, the country open’s itself to the market’s economy and a peace treaty in 1991 . After years of war , the country was completely destroyed: no more cadastre, only two official doctors in the country, nonexistent infrastructure… Cambodia now enters in the worldwide capitalism, adopting more and more its codes , its culture, laws and objectifs? The entire economy is focused on a single idea : export to grow more , In less than 20 years the textile factories went from 90 to 400, and make for 700 000 workers.
