Diverse aspects of de-agrarianization, which is manifested by the cessation or significant reduction in agricultural activities, have been clearly visible at outskirts large cities Central Europe recent decades. The key drivers behind this process include increased pressures to cover peri-urban land new developments, inadequate protection land, ineffective implementation urban planning policies...

1.1 Systemic barriers to growth in the socialist 6 countries in the 1970s 1.2 Growing need for reform and the Hungarian experience 8 1.3 Systemic reforms vs. external financing.