Success and Failure of Reform: Isights from the Transition of Agriculture

By Scott Rozelle, Jo Swinnen. 2004

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The paper analyzes the linkages between the reform strategies in transition countries and economic performance. We focus on agriculture because of the sharpness of the policy changes, fundamental differences among countries, and relative simplicity of agricultural relationships. We document post reform performance in the transition countries of Asia and Europe. We show how: a.) pricing reform and subsidy reductions; b.) land rights reform and policies that affect farm restructuring; and c.) the presence institutions that facilitate exchange (either markets or market substitutes) affect output and productivity. The paper ends with general lessons on reforms and transition.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Jo Swinnen
2. M. Maertens
3. K. Fuglie
4. T. Reardon
5. K. Otsuka
6. Jikun Huang
7. Scott Rozelle
8. K. Deininger

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. K. Deininger
2. Jo Swinnen
3. K. Fuglie
4. Jikun Huang
5. M. Maertens
6. K. Otsuka
7. D. Ali
8. Scott Rozelle

In Soil Science

1. K. Deininger
2. D. Ali
3. Jikun Huang
4. K. Otsuka
5. G. Feder
6. Scott Rozelle
7. K. Fuglie
8. Jo Swinnen

Citations in the corpus

• COVID-19 and global food security (2020, background): “21Food SecurIty, Poverty, and InequalIty But in the 1990s, the key production factor affected was capital (see Rozelle and Swinnen 2004).”
• Presidential Address at 27th International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil: Food Insecurity, Income Inequality, and the Changing Comparative Advantage in World Agriculture (2012, background): “…for a successful maize 4 Advantage of small family farms is likely to be greater in labor-intensive and spatially dispersed agriculture (Rozelle and Swinnen 2004; Gorton and Davidova 2004; Swinnen 2009) or more generally in arable farming as compared with livestock farming (Allen and…”
• Non-Farm Activity, Household Expenditure, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Vietnam: 2002–2008 (2014, background): “In fact, Rozelle and Swinnen (2004) document that the transition”
• The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in Central and Eastern Europe: Implications for the Agrifood Sector and Rural Development (2004, background): “agriculture in CEE (see Lerman, Csaki and Feder, 2004; and Rozelle and Swinnen, 2004 for”
• The emergence of agricultural commodity markets in China (2006, background): “In assessing the determinants of success and failure of 24 transitions during their first decade of reform, Rozelle and Swinnen (2004) demonstrate that improved institutions of exchange were absolutely essential for nations to make progress.”
• Credit Market Imperfections and the Distribution of Policy Rents: The Common Agricultural Policy in the New EU Member States (2007, neutral): “Csaki, and Feder 2004; Rozelle and Swinnen 2004 ).”
• Drivers of changes in agricultural intensity in Europe (2016, background): “In Eastern Europe, in contrast, the institutional and economic transition following the breakdown of socialism (EC, 2015a) resulted in lower support for farming and higher fertiliser prices, which led to a substantial decline in capital-intensive farming practices (Rozelle and Swinnen, 2004).”
• Productivity growth and technology capital in the global agricultural economy. (2012, background): “As what happened earlier (and more smoothly) in China, moving from collective and state-owned corporate farming responding to state mandates to privately- (especially family-) operated farms responding to market incentives brought significant gains in efficiency (Rozelle and Swinnen, 2004).”
• The Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity Worldwide (2010, background): “In a review of the evidence, Rozelle and Swinnen (2004) found that despite the dramatic fall in agricultural output, agricultural productivity in Central Europe and parts of the Balkans and the Baltics started to increase in the early years of transition.”
• Comparing the determinants of cropland abandonment in Albania and Romania using boosted regression trees (2013, background): “First, the agriculture sector in Romania achieved a much higher level of mechanization in 1990 than Albania (Rozelle and Swinnen, 2004).”
• Globalization, privatization, and vertical coordination in food value chains in developing and transition countries (2007, background): “The agricultural supply system was fully integrated and completely state-controlled (Rozelle and Swinnen, 2004).”