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Poverty And Land Policy In Cambodia

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Slow agricultural development has restrained economic growth and poverty alleviation in Cambodia. The country's volatile history has left a legacy of weak tenure security and large areas of underutilized land. This study estimates the impact of access to land on poverty in a logistic regression framework using household survey data. Increased access to land is shown to significantly lower the risk of household poverty. Tenure security, land improvements and irrigation strengthens this effect. Simulations of the potential impact of a land reform package predicts a 16 percentage points fall in poverty incidence among landowning rural households and a 30-point fall when targeting the landless. The analysis suggests that improved tenure security should be at the top of the policy agenda. Given political and economic constraints, implementation of reforms remains a key challenge.

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  • Engvall, Anders & Kokko, Ari, 2007. "Poverty And Land Policy In Cambodia," EIJS Working Paper Series 233, Stockholm School of Economics, The European Institute of Japanese Studies.
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    1. Quentin Grislain & Jeremy Bourgoin & Ward Anseeuw & Perrine Burnod & Eva Hershaw & Djibril Diop, 2020. "Going Beyond Panaceas: The Diversity of Land Observatory Forms in Africa," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(3), pages 1-16, March.
    2. Emilie Beauchamp & Tom Clements & E. J. Milner-Gulland, 2019. "Investigating Perceptions of Land Issues in a Threatened Landscape in Northern Cambodia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-20, October.
    3. Kenjiro Yagura, 2015. "Effect of intergenerational asset transfers on land distribution in rural Cambodia: case studies of three rice-growing villages," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 46(2), pages 173-186, March.
    4. Martin Rudbeck Jepsen & Matilda Palm & Thilde Bech Bruun, 2019. "What Awaits Myanmar’s Uplands Farmers? Lessons Learned from Mainland Southeast Asia," Land, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-23, February.
    5. Benjamin Cyrus Roger Flower, 2019. "Legal geographies of neoliberalism: Market-oriented tenure reforms and the construction of an ‘informal’ urban class in post-socialist Phnom Penh," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(12), pages 2408-2425, September.

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    Keywords

    Cambodia; Economic Development; Poverty; Property Rights; Land Reform;
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    JEL classification:

    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
    • Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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