Originally Posted by Americano

You haven't taken a recent look at Cambodia. 2001 to 2004, the economy grew at an average rate of 6.4% and reached 8% in 2007 with the US as a major trading partner and tourism (2M tourists in a country with a population of 14M) now a major source of foreign exchange. New oil and gas discoveries within Cambodia's territorial waters will, with current oil demand and pricing, put Cambodia way over the SE Asian average per-capita GDP within five years. I wish we had the potential for those numbers.