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Rural Credit Market and the Choice of Tenurial Contracts: A Micro Evidence from Rural West Bengal, India

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  • Laha, Arindam

    (Lecturer, Department of Commerce, The Un iversity of Burdwan)

  • Kuri, Pravat Kumar

    (Reader, Department of Economics, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.)

Abstract

An attempt has been made in the paper to shed some lights on the economic rationale of the coexistence of alternative tenurial contracts in agrarian institutions. To provide adequate explanations of economic rationale under alternative tenurial contracts, a theore tical conceptualisation has been made to identify the role of credit in contract choices. The theoretical model suggests that choice of a particular contract is determined by the joint influence of credit accessibility of tena nts and the lending potentiality of the landlords. The propositions derived from the model have been tested empirically using firm field data from rural West Bengal under the specification of both Simultaneous and Sequential Choice Models . Empirically both the versions of the empirical model establish the instrumental role of credit in determining the choice of a particular contract among a set of possible contracts

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  • Laha, Arindam & Kuri, Pravat Kumar, 2010. "Rural Credit Market and the Choice of Tenurial Contracts: A Micro Evidence from Rural West Bengal, India," Bangladesh Development Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), vol. 33(4), pages 63-83, December.
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    Rural Credit Market; Tenurial Contracts; West Bengal; India;
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