Nearly 16% of Indonesia's 250m people survive on $1.90 a day or less, as do more than 6% of Cambodia's 15m people. In both countries, rice is the staple crop, providingmore than half the daily calories of the poor. That puts needy Cambodians at a distinct advantage: between January of last year and April of this, the average wholesale cost of a kilo of rice in Cambodia was roughly $0.40, while in Indonesia it was nearly $0.70.
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