Government policy and private sector development in post-conflict states: Growing Cambodia’s rice production and export industries

Mark Turner, Ribaun Korm and Kim Veara
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Mark Turner: UNSW Canberra, Australia
Ribaun Korm: National Committee for the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Cambodia
Kim Veara: Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2017, vol. 28, issue 2, 252-269

Abstract: This article deals with the rehabilitation of economies in post-conflict states, paying particular attention to the role played by the state in this process. Using the example of Cambodia and its policies on rice production and export, the article shows the prominent role that may be played by the state in prioritised areas of economic development where there has been market failure. In the Cambodian case, the government targeted rice production and export as these had great potential for promoting the major aims of national development policy – economic growth and poverty alleviation. Using a whole-of-government approach and a combination of direct involvement and the creation of an enabling environment, the government appears to have contributed to vastly increased rice production and export.

Keywords: Agricultural development; Asian development state; Cambodia; economic development; market failure; post-conflict states; poverty alleviation; rice production and marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 H11 O13 O43 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1035304617705269

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