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

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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)

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.

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  • Mark Turner & Ribaun Korm & Kim Veara, 2017. "Government policy and private sector development in post-conflict states: Growing Cambodia’s rice production and export industries," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 28(2), pages 252-269, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecolab:v:28:y:2017:i:2:p:252-269
    DOI: 10.1177/1035304617705269
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    1. M. Shamsul Haque & Mark Turner & Mark Turner, 2013. "Why Is It So Difficult To Reform Some Asian Bureaucracies? Building Theory From Cambodian Evidence," Public Administration & Development, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 33(4), pages 275-285, October.
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    JEL classification:

    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
    • Q17 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agriculture in International Trade

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