What is success and what is failure of transition? a critical review of two decades of agricultural reform in the Europe and Central Asia region

Post-Communist Economies

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 139-162

  Wandel, Jürgen ^a   Pieniadz, Agata ^b   Glauben, Thomas ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES IAMO   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MARKET; AGRICULTURAL REFORM; EUROPEAN UNION; FARMING SYSTEM; MARKET TRANSITION; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

CENTRAL ASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 79957799405     PISSN: 14631377     EISSN: 14653958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2011.570037     Document Type: Review

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