Agrarian transition, process tracing, and institutions -- Collective land, the household responsibility system and the Chinese agrarian transition -- Smallholder frustration, peasant differentiation and the devaluation of land -- The role of township and county administrations in the Chinese...

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...