Among the targets of unbalanced growth strategy, only the rubber sector has both significantly positive innovation backward linkages and has low growth rates.
Particularly, the rubber sector has positive effects on both linkages, indicating that this sector is a key to innovation in our dataset.
With limited number of empirical export impact studies in Cambodia's case, most of which take into account garment sector, the focus on agriculture, food, and rubber sector has been few despite the recognition of their potential distribution.
At the root of the rapid decline lies an informal, yet highly effective, partnership between the state-led Malaysian Malaria Control Programme (MCP) and companies operating in palm oil and rubber sectors.
Other sectors with large increases are animal products at 10.31%, chemical, rubber and plastics sector at 15.89% and wood products at 45.56%.
In particular, innovation forward linkages of the chemical, primary metal, instrument, rubber, and transportation sectors are significantly different from those of many other sectors.
The remaining significant sectors are rubber and transportation, with both sectors having innovation backward and forward linkages.
To fill this gap, the current study aims at analyzing the export potential roles of these three sectors: food and rubber as agro-industrial sectors, and agriculture by employing CGE model, taking into consideration the impacts on growth, employment, production, and household income.
If we select sectors based on the 5 % significance level, then the target sectors are chemical, instrument, and rubber, and the primary metal sector is excluded because of its negative sign.
Within the construction and demolition sector, EPDM rubber roofing membranes are now being disposed of by chipping the waste sheets into uniform, angular chips roughly 1 2 mm in nominal diameter.
These sectors are chemicals, rubber and plastic, machine equipments, transport equipments and non-metallic mineral products for Brunei, textiles and apparel, wood products, electronic equipments and machine equipments for Malaysia, petroleum and coal tar products and food products for Singapore, and textiles and apparel, leather products, animal products and fishing for Vietnam.
