FROM COMMON HERITAGE TO DIVERGENCE: WHY THE TRANSITION COUNTRIES ARE DRIFTING APART BY MEASURES OF AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE.(Central Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States)

From: American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Date: November 15, 2000| Author: LERMAN, ZVI | Copyright information

The twenty-two transition countries in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) embarked on their program of land reform and farm restructuring in the early 1990s from a common heritage, reflecting the Soviet model of socialist agriculture that dominated the region for decades. Socialist agriculture was notoriously inefficient, and the land reform in CEE and CIS, undertaken as part of the process of transition to a market economy, was motivated ...

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