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Why did the communist party reform in China, but not in the Sovjet Union? The political economy of agricultural transition

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  • Rozelle, S.
  • Swinnen, Jo

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The dramatic transition from Communism to market economies across Asia and Europe started in the Chinese countryside in the 1970s. Since then more than a billion of people, many of them very poor, have been affected by radical reforms in agriculture. However, there are enormous differences in the reform strategies that countries have chosen. This paper presents a set of arguments to explain why countries have chosen different reform policies.

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Paper provided by Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in its series Open Access publications from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven with number urn:hdl:123456789/203015.

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Publication status: Published in China Economic Review (2009-06) v.20, p.275-287
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