Cambodia. NSSF began rolling but, is it a boon or bane for informal sector?
The much-awaited National Social Security Fund has begun rolling, covering 70 percent of about seven million workers or self-employed in the informal economy—about 85 percent of the total labour in the economy as a whole. But doubts still persist in the minds of informal workers and self-employed. They wonder why the NSSF is not providing both health care services and retirement pensions like those who in the formal sector as all pay a premium to NSSF. In a major resolution...