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Land Reform in Eastern Europe - Western CIS, Transcaucuses, Balkans, and EU Accession Countries

Year of publication 2001

Author Renee Giovarelli, David Bledsoe

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The former socialist countries of Eastern Europe (that is, Europe east of Germany and west of the Urals, but including all of Russia) began a transition to a market economy in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This paper looks at one aspect of that transition: the transition from state ownership to private ownership of agricultural land and the accompanying transition to a land market for agricultural land.

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