Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246790 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
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[Journal:] Comparative Economic Studies [ISSN:] 1478-3320 [Volume:] 63 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Palgrave Macmillan [Place:] Basingstoke [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 623-647
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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke
Abstract: 
Challenging the initial expectation that all post-Soviet economies will evolve from collective toward fully individualized farming, I argue that they separated into two different reform paths. In the European successor countries and Kazakhstan, corporate and family farms coexist, labor exited agriculture, and capital inflow boosted labor productivity (a “Westernization”). In the Transcaucasian and the other Central Asian countries, complete farm individualization did not increase labor productivity much, in turn keeping rural incomes depressed (a “Southernization” akin to the Global South). Future policies should promote income alternatives to agriculture and improve the flexibility and transparency of farm consolidation processes.
Subjects: 
agricultural restructuring
Post-Soviet countries
labor productivity
individual farm
JEL: 
E23
P27
P32
Q15
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