This text covers rural transformation in the "transition economies". It includes a number of synthetic regional analyses and analytical comparative studies that focus on the lessons learned from transition. These are combined with case studies, covering the political economy of reform.
Transitions, Institutions and the Rural Sector is a series of essays examining and analyzing the rural transformations in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The first part of the book presents comparative studies of agrarian reform during the past decade of transition, while the second contains detailed studies of individual countries.