Russia's Agriculture in Transition Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth

by Lerman, Zvi; Bogdanovskii, Vladimir; Brock, Gregory; Epstein, David; Gardner, Bruce; Grazhdaninova, Margarita; Jolly, Robert; Khramova, Irina; Liefert, William M.; Rolfes, Leonard, Jr.; Rylko, Dmitri; Sazonov, Sergei; Sazonova, Damira; Serova, Evgeniya; S

• ISBN13: 9780739120095
• ISBN10: 0739120093
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-29
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Russia's Agriculture in Transition: Factor Markets and Constraints on Growth examines the development of factor markets in Russian agriculture during the transition to a market economy and analyzes the impact of existing constraints on agricultural growth. It is the outcome of a three-year study conducted with the support of BASIS/CRSP by an international team that included researchers from Russia, the United States, and Israel. The study focused specifically on the development of factor markets in Russian agriculture-markets for labor, purchased inputs, land, and credit. In the literature on transition agriculture, this book is the first devoted explicitly to markets for farm inputs, instead of markets for farm products. It is also unique in its integration of official statistical data with the findings of a large questionnaire-based survey designed to cover issues of agricultural land, labor, supply and use of purchased inputs, access to credit, and-ultimately-farm production with a view to efficiency estimations. Russia's Agriculture in Transition will be of great interest to development economists, agricultural economists, transition scholars, and international donor organizations, in addition to scholars and students of many other related disciplines. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Changing Farm Structure
Large and Small Business in Russian Agriculture	p. 11
Development of Peasant Farms: The Case of Tambov Oblast in Central Russia	p. 57
Agroholdings: Russia's New Agricultural Operators	p. 95
Developing Factor Markets
Land Reform and Development of Land Markets	p. 137
Completing Agricultural Land Reform in Russia: A Western View of Outstanding Policy and Legal Issues	p. 185
Rural and Agricultural Labor Markets	p. 199
Markets for Purchased Farm Inputs	p. 243
Farm Finances and Access to Credit	p. 257
Productivity and Efficiency of Russian Agriculture
The Allocative Efficiency of Input Use in Russian Corporate Farms	p. 305
Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms: Evidence from the 2003 BASIS Survey	p. 327
Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms: Evidence from National Data	p. 335
Allocative Efficiency of Corporate Farms in Leningrad Oblast	p. 347
Technical Efficiency in Russian Agriculture	p. 353
Summary	p. 373
Index	p. 381
Contributors	p. 385
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