The agricultural transition in central and eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R

The agricultural transition in central and eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R

Central and Eastern European countries and the states of the former USSR have embarked on an exhilarating but difficult political and economic transition. Changes in agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR will profoundly affect the individual countries and the region, and alte...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
Other Authors: Braverman, Avishay, ed, Brooks, Karen M, ed, Csaki, Csaba, ed
Format: Book
Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 1993
Subjects:
AGRICULTURA
ASPECTOS ECONOMICOS
POLITICA AGRICOLA
EUROPA CENTRAL Y ORIENTAL
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Pt. 1. Background and concepts
  • 1. Historical experience of eastern and Central European and soviet agriculture / D. Gale Johnson
  • 2. Incentives, organizational structures, and contractual choice in the reform of socialist agriculture / Joseph E. Stiglitz
  • Pt. 2. The International environment: 3. The role of government in agriculture in developed market economies / G. Edward Schuh
  • 4. Trends and developments in agricultural commodity markets / Stanley R. Johnson
  • 5. United Western Europe and the agriculture of central and eastern europe and the USSR / Stefan Tangermann
  • 6. The central and eastern european and Soviet intra-Regional agricultural market / Andras Inotai
  • Pt. 3. The policy framework: ownership, pricing, and finance
  • 7. Property rights in land / Karen M Brooks
  • 8. Agricultural price reform: effect on real incomes and the inflationary process / Michael Marrese
  • 9. Agricultural Capital markets / Charles W. Calomiris
  • Pt. 4. Regional case studies
  • 10. Poland Wlodzimierz Rembisz an Dariusz K. Rosati
  • 11. Hungary: A brief review or the inherited agricultural system and issues of the transition / Marton Tardos
  • Economic dimensions / Csaba Csaki and Gyula Varga
  • The social effects of agrarian reform / Balazs Szelenyi and Ivan Szelenyi
  • 12. Yugoslavia / Vladimir Stipetic
  • 13. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR / Karl-Eugen Wd̃ekin
  • 14. The USSR / Viktor Nazarenko
  • Pt. 5. Relevant experiences in other regions
  • 15. Structure and reform of agriculture in Israel / Yoav Kislev
  • 16. Agricultural reform in a socialist economy: the experience of China / Justin Yifu Lin, Richard Burcroff II, and Gershon Feder
  • Conference authors and discussants.

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