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Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction / Dina Umali-Deininger and Carles Maguire -- Opening session: Opening remarks / Sven Sandstrom -- Promoting the macroeconomic environment for agricultural development / Herman Büchi -- Structural adjustment: gradualism or Big Bang approach? / Vinod Thomas and Yan Wang -- Critical issues in sequencing of reforms: lessons of experience from early reformers / Alberto Valdes -- Institutional environment for agricultural development: Land issues: When should land rights be formalized? Issues in the phasing of property system reforms / John W. Bruce, Shem Migot-Adholla and Joan Atherton -- Land reform in South Africa: process and product / R.E Christiansen and D. Cooper -- Property rights normalization in Mexico: the initial impact / Gustavo Gordillo de Anda -- Restructuring of socialized farms and new land relations in Russia / Karen Brooks and Zvi Lerman -- World Bank land policy: evolution and current challenges / Hans P. Binswanger and Klaus Deininger -- Decentralization of agricultural support services: Decentralization of water management: the case of water users'Associations / Miguel Solanes -- Centralization vs descentralization: reforms of the chinese agricultural research and extension system / Shenggen Fan and Philip Pardey -- Transaction costs in decentralized rural financial markets / Dale W. Adams -- Developing agricultural markets in liberalizing economies: Food marketing under price liberalization in the former USSR: Marx is Dead but Adam Smith Has Not Yet Risen / Bruce Gardner -- Privatization of the sugar market in Mexico / Luis Tellez Kuezler -- Public regulatory roles in developing markets: the case of pesticides / Prabhu L. Pingali and Agnes C. Rola -- Safety nets for the rural poor in liberalizing economies: Safety nets for the rural poor: an overview / Nicholas Barr -- Safety nets after the cooperatives: the challenge to welfare in central and easter europe / Sándor Sipos and Nicholas Barr -- Structural adjustment and agriculture: lessons from experience and new approaches: Agricultural lending in transition: lessons from experience and future approaches / Odin Knudsen annd Kathy Lindert -- Adjustment lending for agriculture: lessons and new approaches for economies in transition / Mohinder S Mudahar -- Development challenges and opportunities in the global village / Ismail Serageldin -- Agriculture in liberalizing economies / Michel Petit.

Discusses ways in which the role of the state in promoting agricultural growth and development may be redefined. This report presents the proceedings of the 14th World Bank Agricultural Symposium held in January 1994. The papers explore ways in which the role of the state in promoting agricultural growth and development may be redefined. They also capitalize on important lessons emerging from experiences around the world. The report suggests that changing the role of government from market domination towards the provision of a regulatory framework that facilitates private sector activity is an ongoing process rather than a one-time occurrence. The papers also illustrate the wide variety of issues and the different approaches in the various countries that are redefining the role of government in agricultural development.