Poverty as subsistence : the world bank and pro-poor land reform in Eurasia / Mihai Varga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Varga, Mihai, author.

Series:

Emerging frontiers in the global economy.

Emerging frontiers in the global economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture and state.

Farms, Small.

Eurasia.

World Bank--Eurasia.

World Bank.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Series Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Poverty Reduction through Land Transfers

Part 1: The Discursive Construction of Pro-poor Land Reform

1. Pro-poor Reforms: The Propertizing Paradigm

2. Pro-poor Land Reform in Eurasia

3. The Reform Continuum: From China to Russia

Part 2: A "Monetizing" Perspective

4. Smallholders: A Fieldwork Study of Resilience and Resistance

5. Resilience: Survival and Growth of Smallholder Agriculture

6. Resistance: Smallholders against Commercialization

Conclusions: The Limits of Pro-poor Land Reform

Appendix: List of Respondents in Romania and Ukraine, 2013-2019

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Varga, Mihai Poverty As Subsistence

ISBN:

9781503634183

OCLC:

1329431401