Land ownership inequality and rural factor markets in Turkey: a study for critically evaluating market friendly reforms

Fatma Gul Ünal analyzes the interconnection between inequality and rural factor markets. She investigates the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities within agriculture and, thereby,in reducing rural poverty and inequality using Turkey as a case study. FATMA GÜL ÜNALEconomics Specialist for UNDP/Regional Bueau for Asia and the Pacifica, Regional Strategy and Policy Unit.She has taught economics at BardCollege at Simon's Rock, USA, Bucknell University, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is a staff economist at the Center for PopularEconomics. INDICE: Introduction: Why Agriculture? - A Portrait of Turkish Agriculture: Inequality and its Discontents: - Sharecropping or Fixed Rent Tenancy? - Small is Beautiful: Evidence of Inverse Size Yield Relationship in Agriculture - Inequality in Land, Inequality in Incomes: Do Markets Help or Hurt and When? -Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-230-12021-1
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 27/03/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés