@article{Gaiha:204262,
      recid = {204262},
      author = {Gaiha, Raghav and Azam, Md Shafiul},
      title = {Agriculture, Markets, and Poverty: A Comparative Analysis  of Lao PDR and Cambodia},
      journal = {Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development},
      address = {2012-06},
      number = {1362-2016-107628},
      pages = {15},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {Lao PDR and Cambodia have been transitioning to a  market-oriented policy regime. Both are agrarian economies  with agriculture contributing about one-third of the gross  domestic product (GDP). This study assessed their prospects  of achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG 1,  extreme
poverty eradication) and the centrality of  agricultural growth in achieving this goal. As these are  macro relationships, richer insights on determinants of  poverty were obtained by detailed analyses of recent  household surveys in these countries. Some of these  insights relate to access to markets, returns to crops,  education, land size, non-farm activities, ethnic  affiliation, and rural infrastructure, with
unavoidable  variation due to differences in the coverage of the  household surveys used. Another major theme studied for  Cambodia is integration of farmers (especially  smallholders) into markets, focusing
on barriers between  large and smallholders (e.g., transaction costs). An  accelerated transition to a more market-oriented policy  regime may promote not just a more efficient agriculture  but also a more equitable outcome.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/204262},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.204262},
}