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Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. Background and concepts -- 1. Historical experience of eastern and Central European and soviet agriculture / D. Gale Johnson -- 2. Incentives, organizational structures, and contractual choice in the reform of socialist agriculture / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- Pt. 2. The International environment: 3. The role of government in agriculture in developed market economies / G. Edward Schuh -- 4. Trends and developments in agricultural commodity markets / Stanley R. Johnson -- 5. United Western Europe and the agriculture of central and eastern europe and the USSR / Stefan Tangermann -- 6. The central and eastern european and Soviet intra-Regional agricultural market / Andras Inotai -- Pt. 3. The policy framework: ownership, pricing, and finance -- 7. Property rights in land / Karen M Brooks -- 8. Agricultural price reform: effect on real incomes and the inflationary process / Michael Marrese -- 9. Agricultural Capital markets / Charles W. Calomiris -- Pt. 4. Regional case studies -- 10. Poland Wlodzimierz Rembisz an Dariusz K. Rosati -- 11. Hungary: A brief review or the inherited agricultural system and issues of the transition / Marton Tardos -- Economic dimensions / Csaba Csaki and Gyula Varga -- The social effects of agrarian reform / Balazs Szelenyi and Ivan Szelenyi -- 12. Yugoslavia / Vladimir Stipetic -- 13. Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR / Karl-Eugen Wd̃ekin -- 14. The USSR / Viktor Nazarenko -- Pt. 5. Relevant experiences in other regions -- 15. Structure and reform of agriculture in Israel / Yoav Kislev -- 16. Agricultural reform in a socialist economy: the experience of China / Justin Yifu Lin, Richard Burcroff II, and Gershon Feder -- Conference authors and discussants.

Central and Eastern European countries and the states of the former USSR have embarked on an exhilarating but difficult political and economic transition. Changes in agriculture in Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR will profoundly affect the individual countries and the region, and alter the world agricultural economy in the twenty-first century. Despite many differences, these countries face a core of common issues as they design and implement agrarian reform. Most of the papers prepared for the 1990 World Bank - National Bank of Hungary conference on the agricultural transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the USSR are presented herein. They provide a rich set of references for understanding the problems of agricultural transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and for evaluating alternative paths open to the governments in the region. The unifying theme of this book is the common dilemmas and options of agricultural transformation in countries that differ in size, resource endowment, level of development, extent of market imperfections, and political condition.