Chapter 30 The rural sector in transition economies

Handbook of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 2, Issue PART A, 2002, Pages 1547-1592

  Brooks, Karen ^a   Nash, John ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

central planning; collective agriculture; EU accession; land reform; O13; privatization; state owned enterprises; transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544334651     PISSN: 15740072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0072(02)10012-0     Document Type: Review

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