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Rural Transition in Azerbaijan
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2010
Summary
In 1995D96 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.
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Edition
1/2010
Copyright Year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4316-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4318-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
188
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 01. Azerbaijan: The Country and the People No access Pages 7 - 24
Chapter 02. Policy and Agricultural Development in Azerbaijan: A 40-Year Perspective No access Pages 25 - 62
Chapter 03. The Design and Implementationof Land Reform No access Pages 63 - 86
Chapter 04. Outcomes of Reform: Transition to Individual Farming and Sector Recovery No access Pages 87 - 102
Chapter 05. Outcomes of Reform: Rural Incomes and Poverty No access Pages 103 - 130
Chapter 06. Conclusion: Looking Beyond Agrarian Reform in Azerbaijan No access Pages 131 - 150
