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. …

Poverty is prevalent among small farms in transition economies such as the Lao PDR, where market failures prevail and … development tool to increase small farm incomes and reduce rural poverty. Using propensity score matching methodology and an … tool to improve the profitability and raise the incomes of small farmers, thereby reducing poverty in rural areas with …

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 …

from the North Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade, and boosting SouthSouth trade. How will trade … patterns change over the next 2 decades in the course of economic growth and structural changes in developing Asia and the rest …, and (iii) various trade policy reforms in developing Asia without and with policy reforms also in the Northʺ and in …

poverty line remain vulnerable to shocks that could place them back into poverty. These are the groups that require social …