Determinants of agricultural land rental market transactions in Bangladesh

Land Use Policy

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 957-964

  Rahman, Sanzidur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Bivariate Tobit model; Land market transactions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LAND MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; RENTAL SECTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 77649337488     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.12.009     Document Type: Article

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