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Land Reform And Development Of Agricultural Land Markets In Russia

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  • Lerman, Zvi
  • Shagaida, Natalya

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Russia has experienced dramatic changes in land ownership and land tenure since the dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991: agricultural land has been largely privatized, individual landowners now have legal rights to most agricultural land in the country, and previous prohibitions on buying and selling of land have been removed by recent laws. The necessary preconditions for the development of agricultural land markets have been met and we are beginning to witness transactions that involve individual landowners, and not only the state. However, further development of the embryonic land market is severely circumscribed by the inadequacy of the administrative and technical infrastructure. In this paper we discuss the dynamically evolving legal framework for land reform, consider the impacts of land reform on privatization and ownership structure of agricultural land, and analyze the development of land market transactions. The analysis is based on official statistical sources and the results of a questionnaire-based survey conducted by the authors in 2003 in three regions. The paper concludes with a review of the existing constraints on land transactions and some policy recommendations.

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  • Lerman, Zvi & Shagaida, Natalya, 2005. "Land Reform And Development Of Agricultural Land Markets In Russia," Discussion Papers 15004, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:huaedp:15004
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.15004
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    1. Svetlov, Nikolai & Hockmann, Heinrich, 2005. "Technical and economic efficiency of Russian corporate farms: the case of the Moscow region [Determinatnten der technischen und ökonomischen Effizienz von landwirtschaftlichen Betrieben in Russland," IAMO Discussion Papers 84, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
    2. Xie, Xiangxiang & Zhang, Anlu & Wen, Lanjiao & Bin, Peng, 2019. "How horizontal integration affects transaction costs of rural collective construction land market? An empirical analysis in Nanhai District, Guangdong Province, China," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 138-146.
    3. Carol S. Leonard & Zafar Nazarov & Irina Il'ina, 2019. "Property rights in land and output growth in Russia : Expansion periods 2001–08 and 2010–14," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 27(1), pages 139-162, January.

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    JEL classification:

    • P23 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
    • P26 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Property Rights
    • P31 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions
    • P32 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Collectives; Communes; Agricultural Institutions
    • Q15 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment

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