The post-Soviet Potemkin village : politics and property rights in the black earth /

Why does the introduction of private property rights sometimes result in poverty, rather than development? Most analyses of institutional change emphasize the design of formal institutions, but this study of land privatization in the Russia-Ukraine borderlands shows how informal politics at the loca...

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Main Author: Pisano, Jessica (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Eng. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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