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100			_aRoy, V.P. _924298
245			_aPart-time brokers in financialised rural land markets: Processes, typology and implications
260			_aReview of Development and Change
300			_a25(1), Jun, 2020: p.70-88
520			_aThis article aims to delineate the part-time matchmaking broker in the rural land markets of Kerala, India, in the light of financialisation of land. 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. 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. 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. In this scenario, 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. The article concludes by drawing attention to the rent-seeking behaviour associated with intermediaries. – Reproduced
650			_aFinancialisation, Intermediation, Brokers, Land markets _921897
773			_aReview of Development and Change
906			_aLAND MARKETS - KERALA
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