Ukraine Review Of Farm Restructuring Experiences

Author : Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821346660

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Ukraine--review of Farm Restructuring Experiences by Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki Pdf

"Restructuring has produced a definite favorable impact on labor relations and workers behavior in the reorganized farms. Managers of reorganized farm enterprises give a much more positive assessment of the behavioral patterns of their workers than managers of non-reorganized farms." Agriculture remains the main source of employment and livelihood for the large rural population of many transition countries, especially among the former Soviet republics. Accordingly the World Bank continuously monitors the progress of land reform and farm restructuring in the region because of the potential impact of these processes on rural development and poverty alleviation in rural areas. The present study on Ukraine is the latest addition to a long and growing series of World Bank publications on land reform and farm restructuring in the former socialist countries of Europe and Central Asia. The unique feature of all these publications is their reliance on first-hand empirical information collected through extensive farm surveys of various rural constituencies. Farm surveys have been conducted by the World Bank in many countries of the CIS (Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Belarus) and Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania). Analysis of survey findings enables the World Bank to base its policy dialogue with governments in the region on solid empirical facts, making the Bank's recommendation much more credible and relevant. The new findings for Ukraine will similarly provide a platform for useful policy discussions with this country's government and supply the many international donors active on the local scene with essential information for the design of their strategic programs.

Author : Zvi Lerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:1132075495

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Ukraine by Zvi Lerman Pdf

Author : Zvi Lerman,Karen McConnell Brooks,Csaba Csáki
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0821331493

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Land Reform and Farm Restructuring in Ukraine by Zvi Lerman,Karen McConnell Brooks,Csaba Csáki Pdf

Rationale for the study and summary of findings; Ukraine: the country and its agriculture; Land reform legislation; The new private sector; Reorganization of farm enterprises; The effect of reorganization on farm employees; Market services and infrastructure; Rural social services and restructuring of the collective sector.

Author : Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman,Serge? Sotnikov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821347926

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Farm Sector Restructuring in Belarus by Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman,Serge? Sotnikov Pdf

Agriculture remains the main source of employment and livelihood for the large rural population of many transition countries, especially among the former Soviet republics. Accordingly, the World Bank continuously monitors the progress of land reform and farm restructuring in the region because of the potential impact of these processes on rural development and poverty alleviation in rural areas. The present study on Belarus is the latest addition to a long and growing series of World Bank publications on land reform and farm restructuring in the former socialist countries of Europe and Central Asia. The unique features of all these publications is their reliance on first-hand empirical information collected through extensive farm surveys of various rural constituencies. Analysis of survey findings enables the World Bank to base its policy dialogue with governments in the region on solid empirical facts, making the Bank's recommendations more credible and relevant. The survey findings in this volume will provide a platform for useful policy discussions with this country's government and supply international donors that are active there with essential information to design their strategic programs.

Author : Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Gershon Feder
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Agrarian structure
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Land Policies and Evolving Farm Structures in Transition Countries by Zvi Lerman,Csaba Csáki,Gershon Feder Pdf

Author : Zvi Lerman,Karen McConnell Brooks
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0821349317

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Turkmenistan by Zvi Lerman,Karen McConnell Brooks Pdf

This study on Turkmenistan is the latest addition to a long and growing series of World Bank publications on land reform and farm restructuring in the former socialist countries of Europe and Central Asia. The present report combines an analysis of the 1998 farm survey overview of general agricultural policies and sectoral performance. Survey results are preceded by a sectoral review and a description of emerging legal framework for land reform and farm restructuring.

Author : Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman,Serge? Sotnikov
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821349430

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Farm Debt in the CIS by Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman,Serge? Sotnikov Pdf

This study presents the results of the multi-country study for farm debt in five Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries - Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, and the Ukraine. It offers a comparative analysis of the level and composition of farm debt in these countries and reviews the major reasons for farm debt accumulation in the 1990s.

Author : Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020698986

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Land Reform in Ukraine by Csaba Csáki,Zvi Lerman Pdf

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 371. This study summarizes the first five years (1991-96) of agrarian reforms in Ukraine, presenting the results of a farm-level survey conducted in 11 provinces between January and March 1996. The findings show that the growth of private farming has slowed down after a vigorous start and that the number of independent family farms appears to have stabilized at around 33,000. Distribution of land and asset shares has been completed in roughly half the farms surveyed. Ukrainian agriculture remains dominated by large collective structures, and the failure of large farms to adapt to new economic conditions has resulted in a distinct deterioration of their financial performance. The survey suggests that land reform in Ukraine is in danger of stagnation and that the government must create the necessary institutional and market conditions to invigorate reforms. Also available in Russian: (ISBN 0-8213-4302-5) Stock No. 14302.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264195646

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Agricultural Finance and Credit Infrastructure in Transition Economies Focus on South Eastern Europe - Proceedings of OECD Expert Meeting, Portoroz, Slovenia, May 2001 by OECD Pdf

- What has been achieved in rural finance and institutional reform during more than a decade of transition and what challenges remain? - What are the special needs of South Eastern European countries to attract agricultural credit and finance to ...

Author : Kym Anderson,Johan Swinnen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821374206

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Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies by Kym Anderson,Johan Swinnen Pdf

The vast majority of the world's poorest households depend on farming for their livelihood. During the 1960s and 1970s, most developing countries imposed pro-urban and anti-agricultural policies, while many high-income countries restricted agricultural imports and subsidized their farmers. Both sets of policies inhibited economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. Although progress has been made over the past two decades to reduce those policy biases, many trade- and welfare-reducing price distortions remain between agriculture and other sectors as well as within the agricultural sector of both rich and poor countries. Comprehensive empirical studies of the disarray in world agricultural markets first appeared approximately 20 years ago. Since then the OECD has provided estimates each year of market distortions in high-income countries, but there has been no comparable estimates for the world's developing countries. This volume is the first in a series (other volumes cover Africa, Asia, and Latin America) that not only fill that void for recent years but extend the estimates in a consistent and comparable way back in time--and provide analytical narratives for scores of countries that shed light on the evolving nature and extent of policy interventions over the past half-century. 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Europe's Transition Economies' provides an overview of the evolution of distortions to agricultural incentives caused by price and trade policies in the economies of Eastern Europe and Central Asia that are transitioning away from central planning. The book includes country and subregional studies of the ten transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the European Union in 2004 or 2007, of seven other large member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and of Turkey. Together these countries comprise over 90 percent of the Europe and Central Asia region's population and GDP. Sectoral, trade, and exchange rate policies in the region have changed greatly since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, but price distortions remain. The new empirical indicators in these country studies provide a strong evidence-based foundation for evaluating policy options in the years ahead.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821353446

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A Guide to the World Bank by Anonim Pdf

The World Bank Group works in more than 100 developing economies and is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. In 2002, the institution provided US $19.5 billion in loans to its client countries. This guide reviews the organisation's history, objectives and operations, and looks at the five institutions that make up the World Bank Group: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Author : Tania Konn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135476861

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Guide to Business Information on Russia, the NIS and the Baltic States by Tania Konn Pdf

This guide is an introduction to English language sources, in electronic and print form, dealing with business issues in Russia, the NIS and the Baltic States. It gives evaluative descriptions and costs of all listed sources, concentrating on recent sources. Sources of information on some of these countries can be difficult to locate, and the author gives guidance on how to go about finding them. Contents: Under each country, information sources are grouped in broad categories: Overview (sources designed to answer general, exploratory, country and regional questions, e.g. population, politics, how to do business etc); Current developments (e.g. recent changes in tax and other laws, trends in foreign direct investment, latest project tenders); Companies and contacts; Industries and services; Legislation; Organisations (a listing of agencies and bodies able to provide assistance, information and data to business people).

Author : Ranjana Mukherjee
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821349473

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Bangladesh by Ranjana Mukherjee Pdf

This book summarizes the responses of Bangladeshi class I (highest level) public-sector officials to a survey on a number of civil service issues, from personnel management practices to rewards and disciplinary actions, and from employees' sources of income to the budget environment and procurement processes. It examines the public sector in Bangladesh, highlighting pay and employment in the civil service. The report also reviews the survey instrument, sampling, and the survey implementation methodology and discusses the findings of the survey. It also describes how the institutional environment and corruption are measured.

Author : Quentin Wodon
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0821349392

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Attacking Extreme Poverty by Quentin Wodon Pdf

..this book...gives us a history lesson and a guide on how to build commercial finance that fits the needs of the world's poorest majority. Policy makers, finance leaders, and anyone who wants to join this revolution in banking must read this book. Around the world, a revolution is occurring in finance for low-income people. The microfinance revolution is delivering financial services to the economically active poor on a large scale through competing, financially self-sufficient institutions. In a few countries this has already happened; in others it is under way. The emerging microfinance industry has profound implications for social and economic development. For the first time in history, capital is well on its way to being democratized. The Microfinance Revolution, in three volumes, is aimed at a diverse readershipAcirc;-economists, bankers, policymakers, donors, and social scientists; microfinance practitioners and specialists in local finance and rural and urban development; and members of the general public interested in development. This first volume, Sustainable Finance for the Poor, focuses on the shift from government- and donor-subsidized credit systems to self-sufficient microfinance institutions providing voluntary savings and credit services. Acirc;"A magnificent workAcirc;" Elizabeth Littlefield, CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) Acirc;"A much-needed wake-up call for economistsAcirc;" David E. Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard University Acirc;"A major work that will unquestionably lie at the very center of microfinance literatureAcirc;" Robert Peck Christen, Senior Adviser, CGAP Secretariat; Academic Director, Microfinance Training Program, Naropa University Acirc;"A seminal workAcirc;" Ira W. Lieberman, former CEO of CGAP; Senior Manager, World Bank

Author : Zvi Lerman,Astghik Mirzakhanian
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739102052

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Private Agriculture in Armenia by Zvi Lerman,Astghik Mirzakhanian Pdf

This book details and analyzes an extensive farm survey of Armenian land reform. Zvi Lerman and Astghik Mirzakhanian, two principal contributors to the design of the study, present their invaluable insight into the rapid land reform strategy implemented in Armenia. Unique among the former Soviet Republics, the entire agricultural sector of this country shifted from collective, large-scale, farm enterprises to individual production in 1992. The authors pay special attention to the commercialization of private farms and their access to supply and marketing channels outside the old state-controlled system. Family incomes from farming and off-farm sources are discussed, as well as problems of rural social services and social infrastructure. The authors demonstrate how official statistical measures and record keeping practices in Armenia do not adequately account for this dramatic transition.