Moral Hazard Problem for Rural Labour Households under JFMP: A Study from Forest Dependent Groups in West Bengal

Nimai Das and Debnarayan Sarker ()

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Abstract: This study seeks to explore policy framework on the impact of moral hazard problem in the JFMP in which government, the owner of forest resource, can not legally monitor actions of JFM households, the agent of the programme, who illegally extract timber forest products. Despite much decrease of illegal collection of TFPs after JFM by the JFM households, some poor JFM households have higher incidence in the illegal extraction of TFPs to meet up their minimum subsistence in which law or force can not effectively control the same which might create more adverse effect on the sustainability of forest resource.

Keywords: Joint forest management programme; JFM and non-JFM forests; forest dependent household; non-timber forest products; forest income. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 J08 J21 Q23 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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