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The problems of agricultural labor in many developing countries tend to be broadly similar but it is difficult to make a comparison between two such vast regions as South Asia, and West Asia and the Mediterranean. Also, it is difficult to describe the salient features of rural labor markets in South Asia, primarily because of substantial regional variations in patterns of growth of output and farm investment, property relations, tenurial conditions, labor use, and the labor process.
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Ghosh, J. (1990). Perspectives from Labor Studies in South Asia. In: Tully, D. (eds) Labor and Rainfed Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0561-0_5
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