Rural Transition in Azerbaijan
Zvi Lerman author David Sedik author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Lexington Books
Published:15th Feb '10
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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.
This is a careful, comprehensive and scholarly work which documents the path of agricultural and rural reform in Azerbaijan and persuasively links rural economic performance to policy decisions. Because of the solid economic analysis and the cogent comparisons with other transition economies, it is far more than a study of Azerbaijan. It is a treatise on how policies drive economic performance and how policy differences can explain divergent performance paths in transition economies. -- William H. Meyers, University of Missouri-Columbia
Azerbaijan is one of the few countries which instituted a land reform leading to high agricultural performance. Hence, this book is much more than just a country-specific case study. It will spur the debate on the design of land reform and farm sizes andits impact on world agriculture. It should be required reading for academics and policy makers who want to understand the present poor performance of agriculture in many transition and developing countries and who want to develop policy alternatives whichmake the disadvantaged in the world more self-sufficient. Ulrich Koester, Kiel Universityyy -- Ulrich Koester, Kiel University
Azerbaijan is one of the few countries which instituted a land reform leading to high agricultural performance. Hence, this book is much more than just a country-specific case study. It will spur the debate on the design of land reform and farm sizes and its impact on world agriculture. It should be required reading for academics and policy makers who want to understand the present poor performance of agriculture in many transition and developing countries and who want to develop policy alternatives which make the disadvantaged in the world more self-sufficient. Ulrich Koester, Kiel University -- Ulrich Koester, Kiel University
ISBN: 9780739143162
Dimensions: 240mm x 163mm x 18mm
Weight: 463g
187 pages