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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451086003321

Autore

Dudwick Nora

Titolo

Land reform and farm restructuring in transition countries [[electronic resource] ] : the experience of Bulgaria, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan / / Nora Dudwick, Karin Fock, David Sedik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank, 2007

ISBN

1-280-85781-1

9786610857814

0-8213-7089-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (110 p.)

Collana

World Bank working paper, , 1726-5878 ; ; no. 104

Altri autori (Persone)

FockKarin

SedikDavid J

Disciplina

323.3147

Soggetti

Land reform - Former Soviet republics

Agriculture and state - Former Soviet republics

Land reform - Bulgaria

Land reform - Moldova

Land reform - Azerbaijan

Land reform - Kazakhstan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87).

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Executive Summary; Introduction; LIST OF BOXES; 1. Bulgaria: With Good Overall Prospects, Good Agricultural Policy, and Good Governance Indicators,Why Are Bulgarian Rural Households So Badly Off?; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; 2. Moldova: With a Well-designed Land Reform Shaped Greatly by Donors, Why Have Farms in Moldova Not Performed Better?; 3. Azerbaijan: With Some of the Poorest Governance Indicators in the CIS, How Did Azerbaijan Implement a Land Reform that Was Viewed by Farmers as Quite Fair and that Led to a Substantial Increase in

4. Kazakhstan: Why Does Kazakhstan Have Surprising Results from a Poor Reform?5. General Conclusions and Implications for Policy; Appendixes; References



Sommario/riassunto

In the past fifteen years, most countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States have shifted from predominantly collective to more individualized agriculture. These years also have witnessed the largest fall in agricultural production, yields, and rural employment on record, while the deterioration and dissolution of collective and state farms have been accompanied by a significant drop in rural public services. Land Reform and Farm Restructuring provides a structured and comparative review of important aspects of land reform and documents important differenc