Privatization in Rural Eastern Europe: The Process of Restitution and Restructuring (Studies of Communism in Transition series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858982030 ISBN 13: 9781858982038

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

This book focuses on one of the major challenges facing countries in Eastern Europe, namely the creation and maintenance of jobs in the agricultural sector. It argues that future employment will critically depend upon the completion of the privatization process, as well as improved efficiency and market opportunity. Privatization in Rural Eastern Europe prescribes radical restructuring of the East European countryside and examines the future prospects for restitution and privatization from both national and regional perspectives. The economic and political history of rural Eastern Europe is examined in the context of the transition process. The discussion then develops with the extensive use of detailed country case studies which analyse the growth of private economic activity in Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia in a clear and systematic way. The book offers careful consideration of the future of the rural economy and emphasizes the importance of rural diversification and the development of the service sector to create new employment opportunities in rural areas. This book will prove invaluable to academics with an interest in agricultural and transitional economics as well as to businessmen interested in East European agriculture, food processing and farm machinery.

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by the late David Turnock, former Emeritus Professor of Geography, University of Leicester, UK

Review:

The book is a good introduction into the complex problems of rural Eastern Europe after the transition, and it is recommend as an initial reading. -- Frithjof Kuhnen, Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture

The present volume...should be warmly welcomed as an important addition to the limited literature on rural and agricultural transition. -- - Zvi Lerman, Slavic Review, Vol. 59, No. 4, Winter 2000

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1858982030
• ISBN 13: 9781858982038
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Turnock David