Land reform and farm restructuring have always been a major component of the transition from plan to market in all formerly socialist countries, and especially in the 12 former Soviet republics forming the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Ukraine, the second most populous country in CIS...

Croatia is very close to meeting the requirements necessary for becoming a member of the European Union (EU). On February 6, 2008, the European Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said that accession negotiations with Croatia are moving ahead well. As in all new member states (NMS), the...

On the verge of EU accession, Polandâs agricultural sector is characterised by a number of distinct structural weaknesses, which are a major reason for the unsatisfactory income situation of rural households. Among these weaknesses are that farm productivity is substantially below EU standards,...

В дискуссионном материале № 40 представляются результаты анализа по определению факторов влияющих на прибыль и рентабельность больших предприятий в Омской...

В дискуссионном материале № 34 представляются ресультаты анкетирования по вопросам собственности и рентабельности в 100 крупных сельскохозяйственных пред-...

Im Diskussion Paper 39 werden Ergebnisse einer Analyse zur Ermittlung von Einflussfaktoren auf Gewinn und Rentabilität russischer Großbetriebe im Oblast Omsk dargestellt. Anhand des für diese Betrieb üblichen Jahresabschlussberichtes wird gezeigt, dass in Russland die fünf Gewinnkennzahlen...

Im vorliegenden Discussion Paper 32 werden Untersuchungsergebnisse zu den Eigentumsverhältnissen und zur Rentabilität in 100 russischen Großbetrieben vorgelegt, die im Jahre 2000 mittels Befragungen im Gebiet Wolgograd gewonnen worden sind. Sie ordnen sich in die Forschungsarbeiten zur...

During the transition of the Vietnamese economy, adaptation of the financial system was one of the most challenging reforms. A major task of this reform was to expand the financial systemâs outreach to the newly emerging private sector and household economies, especially in rural areas....

Subsistence agriculture is probably the least understood and the most neglected type of agriculture. In a globalised, market-driven world, it remains at the same time a myth and a marginal phenomenon. Empirically, subsistence agriculture for a long time seemed to be restricted to developing...

Although interest in the structure and relational features of social capital and its underlying networks has grown since the early 1990s, the terms do not embody any ideas that are really new to sociologists, but are indeed rather new to economists. Until the 1950s, land, labour, and financial...