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Foreword -- Abstract -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Summary of Workshop deliberations / C. Csaki and Z. Lerman -- Pt. 1. Defining the concept of rural development: options for EU accession candidate countries -- Defining the concept of rural development: a European perspective / P. Berkowitz and W. Shulz-Greve -- A non-european perspective evolution of rural policy and agricultural policy in North America / D. Freshwater -- Institutional framework and decentralization in rural development / R. Esposti and F. Sotte -- Experience with rural development in the EU: avoiding the pitfalls / A. Wilkinson -- Pt. 2. Rural development in the European Union -- Rural development policies in the context of the European Union / H. Plumb -- The LEADER community initiative: lessons and possible applications for the EU pre-accession countries / P. J. Mannion, J. Kinsella, and P. Bogue -- Structural funds and rural development: suggestions from the Italian experience / S. Tarditi -- Pt. 3. Rural development in Central and Eastern Europe -- The status of rural development in Central and Eastern Europe / A. Zichy -- Critical constraints to rural development in Central and Eastern Europe / J. Swinnen, L. Dries, and E. Mathijs -- The non-agricultural rural sector in Central and Eastern Europe / J. Davis and D. Pearce -- Concepts, policies, programs, and institutions of rural development in Hungary / K. Kovács and Z Bihari -- Pt. 4. International experience and the role of international organizations in supporting rural development in the EU accession candidate countries -- Major achievements and gaps in rural development in the European Union / L. Van Depoele -- FAO experience and main thrusts in rural development in the EU accession countries / J. Juhasz and S. Funes -- Rural development and the World Bank: varied experience and continuing challenge / J. Anderson and R. Thompson -- World Bank support for agriculture and rural development in Latvia / H. Kim -- The Poland rural development project / P. Wilczynski -- The potential role of international organizations and NGOs in supporting rural development in the EU accession countries / J. Symonds -- Workshop program -- List of country studies -- Rural development in the European Union -- Rural development in Central and Eastern Europe.

This report examines the reforms and policy changes necessary in the rural section of the ten countries that have started the accession process for eventual membership in the European Union (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia). The papers in this report are selected from the presentations at the Third World Bank/FAO EU Accession Workshop held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 17-20, 2000, and are organized around four topics: 1) Defining the concepts of rural development-options for EU accession candidate countries; 2) Rural development in the European Union; 3) Rural development in Central and Eastern Europe; and 4) International experiences and the role of international organizations in supporting rural development in the EU accession countries.