Cambodian cyclo drivers transport Buddhist paraphenalia for sale at a market in Phnom Penh on October 7, 2009. The International Monetary Fund said late last month that Cambodia's economy will contract 2.75 percent this year as the global economic crisis takes its toll on the country. Some 35 percent of the country's 14 million people live on less than 50 US cents a day. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago

Cambodian cyclo drivers transport Buddhist paraphenalia for sale at a market in Phnom Penh on October 7, 2009. The International Monetary Fund said late last month that Cambodia's economy will contract 2.75 percent this year as the global economic crisis takes its toll on the country. Some 35 percent of the country's 14 million people live on less than 50 US cents a day.

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