Development policies, resource constraints, and agricultural expansion on the Philippine land frontier

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 341-363

  Coxhead, Ian ^a   Shively, Gerald ^c   Shuai, Xiaobing ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Capital One   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison ^*

Author keywords

Agriculture; Environment; Land use; Philippines; Policy

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0041632430     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X02000219     Document Type: Article

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