Poverty As Subsistence: The World Bank And Pro-Poor Land Reform In Eurasia (Emerging Frontiers In The Global Economy)

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Poverty as Subsistence explores the 'propertizing' land reform policy that the World Bank advocated throughout the transitioning countries of Eurasia, expecting poverty reduction to result from distributing property titles over agricultural land to local (rural) populations. China's early 1980s land reform offered support for this expectation, but while the spread of propertizing reform to post-communist Eurasia created numerous "subsistence" smallholders, it failed to stimulate entrepreneurship or market-based production among the rural poor. Varga argues that the World Bank advocated a simplified version of China's land reform that ignored a key element of successful reforms: the smallholders' immediate environment, the structure of actors and institutions determining whether smallholders survive and grow in their communities. With concrete insights from analysis of the land reform program throughout post-communist Eurasia and multisited fieldwork in Romania and Ukraine, this book details how and why land reform led to subsistence and the mechanisms underpinning informal commercialization.


  • | Author: Mihai Varga
  • | Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • | Publication Date: Feb 21, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 218 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 1503633047
  • | ISBN-13: 9781503633049
Author:
Mihai Varga
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Publication Date:
Feb 21, 2023
Number of pages:
218 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
1503633047
ISBN-13:
9781503633049