Land reform and farm restructuring in transition countries : the experience of Bulgaria, Moldova, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan / Nora Dudwick, Karin Fock, David Sedik
Bulgaria: with good overall prospects, good agricultural policy, and good governance indicators, why are Bulgarian rural households so badly off? -- Moldova: with a well-designed land reform shaped greatly by donors, why have farms in Moldova not performed better? -- 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 productivity? -- Kazakhstan: why does Kazakhstan have surprising results from a poor reform? -- General conclusions and implications for policy
Summary
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
