Comparative Institutional Evolution: Rural Land Reform in the ECA Region (2001)
This paper does not attempt to cover all these factors and dimensions. Its goal is much more restricted: to review the differences in the implementation of land reform and farm restructuring in...
Arup Banerji, Erik Berglf, Lisa Bernstein, Timothy Besley, John P. Bonin, Juan Carlos Botero, ...
Collier, Nancy Cooke, Csaba Csaki, Maria Dakolias, Klaus Deininger, Shanta Devarajan, Christian Delvoie, William Easterly, David Ellerman, Peter Fallon, Gershon Feder, J. Michael Finger, Alan Gelb,...
Los agricultores no se apresuran a abandonar las grandes estructuras para crear su propia explotación agraria en tierras privadas. Antes bien, las grandes explotaciones agrarias se reorganizan en...
Lerman, Zvi, Mozhin, Kirill, Sapova, Natalya, Tankhilevich, Eugenii
En Rusia las explotaciones agrarias familiares subsidiarias, producen el 25 por ciento de la producción agraria total en el 3 por ciento de la tierra. Este rendimiento impresionante se cita a menudo...
This article explores the structure of the rural economy in Armenia from a farm household perspective. Ownership of capital and access to activities are examined on the basis of data from a recent...
Farm output, non-farm income and commercialization in rural Georgia
Iddo Kan, Ayal Kimhi, Zvi Lerman
This article examines the decision of farmers to sell part of their farm output on the market, using data from the Republic of Georgia. A two-level empirical model is used, in which endowments and...
Credit cooperatives inIsraeli agriculture
Kislev, Yoav, Lerman, Zvi, Zusman, Pinhas
In the last two or three decades, moshavim and kibbutzim developed entensively, adopted new technologies, reacted quickly to changes in market conditions, and established a network of farm services...
Land policies and evolving farm structures in transition countries
Lerman, Zvi, Csaki, Csaba, Feder, Gershon
The authors review the role of land policies in the evolving farm structure of transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). They show how...
Allocative and Technical Efficiency of Corporate Farms in Russia
Margarita Grazhdaninova, Zvi Lerman
The efficiency of Russian corporate farms is analysed using the data of a 2003 survey. Allocative efficiency is assessed using the value of marginal product of inputs from production function...
Individual Farming as a Labour Sink: Evidence from Poland and Russia
Zvi Lerman, Pepijn Schreinemachers
In Poland and Russia, which provide two widely different examples of transition countries, small-scale individual farms employ more labour per hectare of land than large-scale corporate farms without...
Agricultural Reform in Russia: A View from the Farm Level.
Brooks, K., Krylatykh, E., Lerman, Zvi, Uzun, V.
Russia's agricultural sector has potential to make a significant contribution to global food supply in the coming century. The country's agriculture is now, however, under-performing. Production...
Does Land Reform Matter? Some Experiences from the Former Soviet Union.
There is still no evidence that new farming structures created in the process of land reform have achieved higher productivity than traditional farms. The most striking achievements of reform include...
The countries of East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union have achieved considerable progress with land reform and farm restructuring since 1991. Yet the achievements fall short of original...
Land Reform and Farm Sector Restructuring in the Former Socialist Countries in Europe.
Land reform in former socialist countries is proceeding along the dual track of restitution to former owners and distribution to users. Privatisation of land is accompanied by restructuring of...