The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies : Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition

Max (Institute of Social Studies Spoor

ISBN 10: 0415588782 / ISBN 13: 9780415588782

Edité par Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr 2010, 2010

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• Titre: The Political Economy of Rural Livelihoods in Transition Economies : Land, Peasants and Rural Poverty in Transition
• Éditeur: Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr 2010
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0415588782
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780415588782
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 234 L x 156 H x 0 P (en millimètres) 234 millimètres de largeur par 156 millimètres de hauteur par 0 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 530 grammes

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Synopsis

Rural poverty is a phenomenon that is widespread yet often ignored by policy makers and researchers. This edited volume looks critically at rural poverty in Central Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, China and Vietnam in relation to land reform, farm restructuring and the development of rural markets and in the context of a large gap between rural and urban incomes and deteriorating rural social services and infrastructure. Although in most countries rural poverty has been decreasing in the past few years, economic growth in rural areas is slow, and rural incomes are not 'catching up' with the rapid overall growth rates of these transition economies. In general, the livelihoods of rural dwellers remain relatively poor.

Next to comparative studies, the chapters in this book explore various aspects of agrarian reform, and analyze the interlocking or interlinking (land, input and output) markets that are crucial for rural development that have often remained weakly developed in transition economies, including case studies from Russia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Vietnam and China and a wealth of detailed analysis. These chapters reflect the striking differences between transition countries in their processes of rural reform and development of rural poverty. These differences are generally dependent on the initial conditions at the eve of transition, the policies implemented, the sequencing of reforms, and the importance that was given to the sector in the overall development strategy, such as can be seen if the Asian transition economies (ATEs) are compared with many of those in Eastern Europe.

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Max Spoor is Associate Professor of Transition Economics at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and Visiting Professor at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI).