@article{Swinnen:31717,
      recid = {31717},
      author = {Swinnen, Johan F.M.},
      title = {Agricultural transformation: Lessons from experience},
      journal = {Agrekon},
      address = {2005-03},
      number = {346-2016-15921},
      pages = {20},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {It is now fifteen years ago that the Berlin Wall fell, the  start of a vast set of changes throughout the countries of  Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Reforms in the  Communist world had started earlier further east: first in  China in the late 1970s and in Vietnam in the mid 1980s.  The changes affected society in a multitude of ways. They  affected the way the political and economic system operated  but also the social organization of society, the psychology  of the people living in the countries, and the culture of  day-to-day life. 

In this essay I focus on how these  changes affected the rural economy and the agricultural and  food sector. I will discuss developments and performances  of the countries during transition, the causes behind them,  and the policy lessons they imply. My analysis relies  heavily on work I have done with various co-authors on  these issues and I refer to these publications for details  on some of the issues and arguments which I will forward  here somewhat too brief to do justice to their complexity.  For more detailed arguments and analyses I refer in  particular to Rozelle and Swinnen (2004) and Macours and  Swinnen (2000, 2002).},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31717},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.31717},
}