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Foreign Investment in Agriculture in
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SAING Chan Hang, HEM Socheth and OUCH Chandarany with PHANN Dalis and PON Dorina
Working Paper Series No. 60
June 2012
A CDRI Publication

Foreign Investment in Agriculture in Cambodia
CDRI Working Paper Series No. 60

SAING Chan Hang, HEM Socheth and OUCH Chandarany with PHANN Dalis and PON Dorina

CDRI - Cambodia’s leading independent development policy research institute

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Phnom Penh, June 2012

CDRI Working Paper Series No. 60

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