What is it about?
This article aims to delineate the part-time matchmaking broker in the rural land markets of Kerala, India. The article maps out the actors involved in rural land markets so as to trace the role of intermediary brokers, their intricate processes of intermediation and their implications, to understand the process of mediation in the working of rural land markets. The article draws attention to the rent-seeking behaviour associated with intermediaries while linking it with the broader process of financialisation.
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Why is it important?
While the land scenario in India has garnered attention with respect to urbanisation and financialisation, few studies have analysed the processes involved in rural land markets in conjuncture with financialisation. Rural land market functioning is analysed in the backdrop of a tax-evading land transfer tax system and brokers who are mainly matchmakers that augment speculative land market activity.
Perspectives
The study analyses the various types of intermediaries by revealing how the ‘part-time matchmaking broker’ uses social networks to mediate speculative land purchases in a financialised rural land market regime.
Mr Nirmal Roy V P
Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation
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This page is a summary of: Part-time Brokers in Financialised Rural Land Markets: Processes, Typology and Implications, Review of Development and Change, June 2020, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0972266120927711.
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