Author : Ashwani Saith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 26,84 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1136284842
First published in 1986. This collection of eight essays begins with a piece that constructs a preliminary argument concerning the position of the peasantry in the twin transitions: the first to industrialisation, and the second, towards socialism. In the poor developing country launching upon both simultaneously, the agrarian question bifurcates into two dichotomous sets of issues.
Author : Joseph C Brada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1000312011
Because of altered investment priorities, policymakers in socialist countries can no longer increase the resources devoted to agriculture as they have in the past. Instead, they must seek alternative means of improving agricultural performance. One approach has been to change the structure of socialist agriculture and to foster organizational changes within agricultural units. The contributors to this volume evaluate such reforms and weigh their implications for agricultural output and trade. They examine the normless links being introduced in the USSR and compare Soviet experiences with the successes of Chinese and Hungarian reorganizations; describe and analyze the changes being implemented in the German Democratic Republic, Yugoslavia, and Vietnam; and pay particular attention to the role of Polish agriculture in the production crisis and to agriculture's potential for improving Poland's overall economic performance. The contributors also address issues of infrastructure development, the incentives being developed to foster more efficient allocation of resources within the agricultural sector, and the likely growth of East-West and intra-socialist agricultural trade.
Author : Joseph C. Brada
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2019-10-02
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 9780367287764
Because of altered investment priorities, policymakers in socialist countries can no longer increase the resources devoted to agriculture as they have in the past. Instead, they must seek alternative means of improving agricultural performance. One approach has been to change the structure of socialist agriculture and to foster organizational changes within agricultural units. The contributors to this volume evaluate such reforms and weigh their implications for agricultural output and trade. They examine the normless links being introduced in the USSR and compare Soviet experiences with the successes of Chinese and Hungarian reorganizations; describe and analyze the changes being implemented in the German Democratic Republic, Yugoslavia, and Vietnam; and pay particular attention to the role of Polish agriculture in the production crisis and to agriculture's potential for improving Poland's overall economic performance. The contributors also address issues of infrastructure development, the incentives being developed to foster more efficient allocation of resources within the agricultural sector, and the likely growth of East-West and intra-socialist agricultural trade.
Author : Melanie Beresford
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Collective farms
ISBN :
Author : Markus Brem
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :
This article seeks to contribute to our understanding of farm restructuring in transition by asking for driving forces behind organizational change in agriculture. It focuses on the stakeholders' trade-off between internal transaction costs vs. switching costs. The article, then, introduces factors determining the level of these two types of costs such as for internal transaction costs the original size of the firm, inside-ownership, and the type of production, and for switching costs the remaining asset specificity after establishing the formal property rights. The theoretical model is exposed to data from a recent survey in two regions of the Czech Republic by both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The quantitative analysis characterizes the downsizing process of distinguishable restructuring paths of 87 farms. Mechanisms of individual stakeholder decisions on redeployment decisions are elaborated on basis of five qualitative case studies. The article shows perspectives of further farm restructuring in European transition countries.
Author : Johan F.M. Swinnen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2006-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199288917
"This book is the first effort to analyze the economics and politics of agricultural reforms by comparing the reform processes, their causes and their effects across this vast region. The authors draw on a vast set of studies and new data, which compare reforms and economic impacts in more than 25 countries. A series of conclusions and implications on the role of economic reforms in growth, and the importance of initial conditions and political constraints in explaining the choices that were made and their effects are discussed throughout the book."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Rémy Herrera
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1800437048
This collection of essays is designed to shed light on the issues of imperialism and the transitions to socialism. Delving into the theoretical aspects, whose analysis is key for understanding the subject under consideration, and practical experiences of socialist transition in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Brazil.
Author : Alberto Valdés
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Ivan Szelenyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 39,6 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134674708
Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence, the contributors provide a balanced assessment of how agrarian economies performed in different communist countries. The Soviet and Eastern European experience is contrasted with reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba to provide the first comprehensive account of agricultural restructuring after the collapse of communism in Europe and Asia.
Author : John Pickles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134715641
Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development. The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.
