With globalization, market liberalization, and the rapid development of rural infrastructure, new market opportunities …, farmers, government, and donors. In particular, this work examines contract farming in the Lao PDR and Cambodia and points to … donor resources, private sector endeavors that serve to generate pro-poor growth may be the key to poverty alleviation. …

Goal 1 (No poverty), Goal 2 (Zero hunger) and Goal 3 (Good health and well-being). Another purpose, recognized as the added …

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of … gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity … composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with Japan in the 1950s and the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China from …

development in Cambodia and the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Both agricultural activities are growing worldwide …. The benefits of both activities in terms of poverty reduction and environmental sustainability to developing countries … such as Cambodia and the Lao PDR are likely to be significant, although the full extent of that is subject to market access …

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 …