Albania's radical agrarian reform.
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چکیده
The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivization of the farms as caused by a combination of several factors, including changes in political institutions, the structure of the economy, the legal status of assets under privatization, farm productivity, and the pre-1945 land distribution. The authors would like to thank the organizers and participants at the Conference on the “Significance of Politics and Institutions for the Design and Formulation of Agricultural Policy” in Halle/Germany December 1996, two anonymous referees and Prof. Gale Johnson, Editor for the Economic Development and Cultural Change, for very useful comments on earlier versions of this paper. We are indebted to the Albanian officials in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food who provided most of the information used in here. Azeta Cungu gratefully acknowledges financial support from the European Union, ACE Program 1995. Any remaining errors are, of course, ours. Policy Research Group, Department of Agricultural Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kardinaal Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Leuven, Belgium, Tel.: ++32 16 321614 Fax: ++ 32 16 31996 E-mail: [email protected]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Economic development and cultural change
دوره 47 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1999