{"id":574805,"date":"2026-07-08T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/574805\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:15:14","slug":"imf-sharply-downgrades-cambodia-economic-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/574805\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF sharply downgrades Cambodia economic forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Growth to slow to 3% and inflation to double to 5.6%, according to US-based fund<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260708 Cambodia Garment Factory\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Workers at a China-funded textile and garment factory in Kampong Chhnang Province, Cambodia. The sector remains one of the mainstays of the Southeast Asian nation&#8217;s economy. \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>DANIELLE KEETON-OLSEN<\/p>\n<p>July 8, 2026 13:49 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on July 8, 2026 16:25 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PHNOM PENH &#8212; The International Monetary Fund has sharply downgraded its economic outlook for Cambodia, warning that rising energy prices will compound previous challenges like the Thai border conflict and cyber scam industry, depressing growth and accelerating inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Growth to slow to 3% and inflation to double to 5.6%, according to US-based fund Workers at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,21313,244820,5781,179,18,2812,19,13484,17,244819],"class_list":["post-574805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-cambodia","tag-downgrades","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-forecasts","tag-ie","tag-imf","tag-ireland","tag-sharply"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116883602738514547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}