From the early 1990s on, high economic growth combined with an emerging strong rural nonfarm economy that provides new jobs are associated with a significant though regionally differentiated increase in land market activities (Deininger and Jin 2008). Between 1993 and 1998, rental market participation more than quadrupled from 3.8 to 15.5 percent. Although per capita expenditure increased within this period by 5.9 percent based on a highly egalitarian distribution (Gini coefficient of 0.26), the rural economy was still quite poor. Other sources state that land market transactions increased tenfold from 2.5 percent in 1993 to 25.0 percent in 1998 (Do and Iyer 2008). Contrary to this promising start, rental markets have not increased in importance over time (Brandt et al. 2006). In 2004, only 3.61 percent of all agricultural land was rented, with 10.7 percent renting in and 6.0 percent renting out. However, for households renting in, tenancy plots are the source of nearly a third of their managed lands.