Rural Transition in Azerbaijan (eBook)

Zvi Lerman, David Sedik (Autoren)

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2010
187 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4318-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The book demonstrates that reform policies_including privatization of land and the shift from collective to individual farming_have a significant impact on agricultural growth, rural incomes, and poverty alleviation. The analysis spans more than 40 years of agricultural and rural development in Azerbaijan, based on country-level statistical data and original farm and household surveys.

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In 1995-96 the President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Alieyev, launched a program of agrarian reforms that caused a sweeping and irreversible shift from Soviet-style collective agriculture to individual farming in his country. These reforms led to an impressive recovery and substantial productivity improvements in agriculture. The agrarian transition in Azerbaijan contrasts with that in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, where land privatization has been accompanied by policies encouraging the persistence of large corporate farms and where agricultural recovery has been much less impressive. For this reason Azerbaijan is today viewed as one of the few examples of successful land reform in the former Soviet Union. The impact of the Aliyev agrarian reforms went far beyond the recovery of agricultural production. The new policies had a significant impact on rural poverty and they were instrumental in increasing the incomes of Azerbaijan's large rural population, which relies on agriculture for a substantial part of the family budget. To understand the successes and limitations of land reform, Rural Transition in Azerbaijan evaluates the record of rural reforms, focusing on policy change, farm level performance, and the impact of reforms on rural incomes and rural family well-being-issues that today are at the core of the agenda in many international organizations.

Autor

Zvi Lerman is professor and Sir Henry dOAvigdor Goldsmid Chair in Agricultural Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of Agriculture in Transition: Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Post-Soviet Countries. David J. Sedik is Chief of the Policy Assistance Branch responsible for the development of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN field program, rendering agricultural policy advice to member countries, and assembling country information in the Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter 1. Azerbaijan: The Country and the PeopleChapter 3 Chapter 2. Policy and Agricultural Development in AzerbaijanChapter 4 Chapter 3. The Design and Implementation of Land ReformChapter 5 Chapter 4. Outcomes of Reform: Transition to Individual Farming and Sector RecoveryChapter 6 Chapter 5. Outcomes of Reform: Rural Incomes and PovertyChapter 7 Chapter 6. Conclusion: Looking Beyond Agrarian Reform in Azerbaijan

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Rural Economies in Transition
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Environmental Studies • European History • Government and Politics • Russian and East European Studies • World History
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-4318-2 / 0739143182
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4318-6 / 9780739143186