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Agricultural Cooperative Enterprise In The Transition From Socialist Collective Farming

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Gardner, Bruce
Lerman, Zvi

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Cooperative enterprise has appeal as a means of filling gaps in the economic institutions of the rural sectors of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. But in addition to problems that have faced cooperatives in the West because of their inherent characteristics, the Soviet-era legacy created cultural burdens that cooperatives will have to overcome. A review of countries’ experiences since 1989 indicates some commonalities in attempts to create “new cooperatives,” but also instructive differences across countries. The evidence so far is unfavorable for cooperatives in agricultural production. In marketing and input supply the current situation is more promising. In both production and marketing, the economic institutions remain in flux. Unique approaches involving cooperatives may take permanent root, but their long-term prospects are in doubt.

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Paper provided by Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management in its series Discussion Papers with number 7174.

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  1. Allen, Douglas W & Lueck, Dean, 1998. "The Nature of the Farm," Journal of Law & Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 41(2), pages 343-86, October.
  2. Margarita Grazhdaninova & Zvi Lerman, 2005. "Allocative and Technical Efficiency of Corporate Farms in Russia," Comparative Economic Studies, Palgrave Macmillan Journals, vol. 47(1), pages 200-213, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Ferto, Imre & Fogarasi, Jozsef, 2005. "The Choice of Farm Organization. A Hungarian Case," 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI 19463, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association). [Downloadable!]
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  4. Grazhdaninova, Margarita & Lerman, Zvi, 2005. "Allocative and Technical Efficiency of Corporate Farms in Russia," 2005 International Congress, August 23-27, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark 24756, European Association of Agricultural Economists. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Hanson, James C. & Matavulj, Miodrag & Manzuk, Gregory & Richardson, John G., 2007. "Agricultural Cooperatives and Unions of Cooperatives in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Opportunities for Improvement," Working Papers 7344, University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. [Downloadable!]
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