Policy questions for a second decade of rural change in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union

✍ Scribed by Malcolm D. Childress

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 53 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/jid.904

✦ Synopsis

imperfect markets for land, capital, and insurance; * inadequate and non-transparent corporate governance; * breakdown of trading networks for input supply and output distribution; * collapse of agricultural research, extension, and technology transfer; * missing market information; * modulating, inconsistent legal frameworks; * lack of contract enforcement and corrupt judiciaries; * rent-seeking in local government; * high transaction costs; * unevenly and abusively enforced regulations and corrupt bureaucracy; * inadequate management of collective goods like irrigation infrastructure and farm machinery; * isolation of individual farmers and fragmentation of landholding (in the Balkans); * failure of provision of public goods and social services in rural areas. Rural Change in Central/Eastern Europe 981