Presently Russia is experiencing the complicated process of transforming the economic system of central planning into a socially oriented market economy. Of great importance for the success of this process is the institutional reshaping of the agricultural sector, particularly the privatisation...

Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are...

The study is devoted to the measurement of productivity and efficiency change in Chinese farming sector over the reform process in the 1980s and 1990s. Within an output distance function framework, an index of total factor productivity is decomposed into technical and allocative efficiency,...

Am 22. Januar hat die EU_Kommission ihre Vorschläge zur Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik vorgelegt. Welche Reformen sind vorgesehen? Wie werden sie bewertet? Franz Fischler, Ulrike Höfken, Gerd Sonnleitner und Ulrich Koester nehmen Stellung.

Am 22. Januar hat die EU-Kommission ihre Vorschläge zur Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik vorgelegt. Welche Reformen sind vorgesehen? Wie werden sie bewertet? Franz Fischler, Ulrike Höfken, Gerd Sonnleitner und Ulrich Koester nehmen Stellung.