Sustainability of Rice Production in ThailandNova Publishers, 2001 - 235 من الصفحات Contents: Introduction; Access to Land: Patterns of Land Holding and Land Ownership; Rural Labour Markets and Off-Farm Employment; Capital Formation; Access to Rural Credit; Conclusion; Index. |
المحتوى
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The Role of Land Rental Markets | 35 |
14 Conclusion | 53 |
Rural Labor Markets and OffFarm Employment | 57 |
Definitional Issues | 59 |
22 Family Demographics and the Household Supply of Labor | 65 |
33 Conclusion | 154 |
Access to Rural Credit | 157 |
41 General Structure of Credit Markets | 159 |
42 The Bias in Farmers Access to Credit | 174 |
43 Access to Credit and Capital Formation | 190 |
44 Conclusion | 200 |
Conclusion | 203 |
Industrialization Labor Shortage and Adjustment in the Labor Market | 207 |
23 Scale of Farming Land Tenure and Labor Intensity | 72 |
24 Choice of Technology and Factor Proportions | 86 |
25 Interactions between Rural and Urban Labor Markets | 92 |
26 Conclusion | 104 |
Capital Formation | 107 |
31 The Failure of the Green Revolution | 108 |
32 The Success of Mechanization | 135 |
The Process of Technical Innovation | 208 |
Performance of Agricultural Credit | 211 |
Scope for Government Intervention | 213 |
References | 217 |
Index | 227 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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