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Cambodia has been growing rapidly over the past few years but still remains one of the poorest countries in East Asia …. In particular, poverty is widespread in rural Cambodia. This paper examines rural poverty in Cambodia with a view to … literature, it appears that reduced rural poverty in Cambodia would have to rest on two pillars. Firstly, improvements in …
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There is a spectrum of policy options available in dealing with dollarization in the transitional economies of Southeast Asia. These range from official dollarization at one end and enforced de-dollarization at the other. In between lie: currency board arrangements (CBAs), single currency...
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Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Viet Nam have agreed to comply with the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) Scheme …
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284033
We use new data on the timing of the transition to agriculture, developed by Putterman and Trainor (2006), to test the …). The factors conducive to high per capita incomes today are good institutions, an early transition to agriculture, access …
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This paper examines the prospects for organic agriculture (OA) and the production of biofuels as strategies for rural … development in Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Both agricultural activities are growing worldwide … such as Cambodia and the Lao PDR are likely to be significant, although the full extent of that is subject to market access …
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, farmers, government, and donors. In particular, this work examines contract farming in the Lao PDR and Cambodia and points to …
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Mutual aid among villagers in developing countries is often the only means of insuring against economic shocks. We use 'lab-in-the-field experiments' in Cambodian villages to study solidarity in established and newly resettled communities. Both communities are part of a land distribution project...
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