Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms



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CENTER DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 819

SKILLS, PARTNERSHIP AND TENANCY
IN SRI LANKAN RICE FARMS

Sanjaya DeSilva

Bard College

October 2000

Note: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussions and critical
comments.

Financial support was provided by the Ford Foundation and the Economic Growth Center at Yale
University.

I am thankful to Robert E. Evenson, T.N. Srinivasan, Christopher Udry and Jean O. Lanjouw for
their invaluable comments and suggestions. Versions of this paper were presented at the Northeast
Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conferences 1998 and 2000 and various
workshops at Yale. I gratefully acknowledge the Department of Census and Statistics in Sri Lanka
for granting access to their data. Please send comments and suggestions to [email protected].



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