Poverty as subsistence : the World Bank and pro-poor land reform in Eurasia

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Title
"Poverty as subsistence : the World Bank and pro-poor land reform in Eurasia"
Statement of Responsibility
Mihai Varga
Publisher
  • Stanford University Press
Publication Year
  • c2023
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-189) and index

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 multi-sited fieldwork in Romania and Ukraine, this book details how an

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