Mixed and pure sharecropping in Nepal: Empirical evidence supporting the traditional hypothesis

Applied Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-50

  Acharya, Ram N ^a   Ekelund Jr , Robert B ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROP PRODUCTION; PROPERTY RIGHTS; SHARECROPPING; TENURE SYSTEM;

NEPAL;

EID: 0031846114     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368498326128     Document Type: Article

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