Property Rights, Productivity, and Common Property Resources: Insights from Rural Cambodia1An earlier version of this paper was prepared as a background study for the World Bank Report, "Halving Poverty by 2015? Cambodia Poverty Assessment 2006".

World Development

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2277-2296

  Markussen, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

agriculture; Asia; Cambodia; common property resources; property rights

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; LAND RIGHTS; POVERTY DETERMINANT; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL POLICY; WORLD BANK;

ASIA; CAMBODIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 53849137286     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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