Land ownership inequality and rural factor markets in Turkey
Subtitle: a study for critically evaluating market friendly reforms
By: Fatma Gül Unal
Series: The economics of the Middle East
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230120211
Subjects: Rural Land use; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional; Rural poor; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics; Land reform; Land tenure
Description: "Analyzes the interconnection between inequality and rural factor markets. Its scope is the intersection of agriculture and inequality. Unal 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. The core theme in this book is the 'connectedness' between land ownership inequality and how markets mediate economic opportunities to people"--

"Analyzes the interconnection between inequality and rural factor markets. Its scope is the intersection of agriculture and inequality. Unal 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. The core theme in this book is the "connectedness" between land ownership inequality and how markets mediate economic opportunities to people"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Agriculture? * Chapter 2: A Portrait of Turkish Agriculture: Inequality and its Discontents: * Chapter 3: Sharecropping or Fixed Rent Tenancy? * Chapter 4: Small is Beautiful: Evidence of Inverse Size Yield Relationship in Agriculture * Chapter 5: Inequality in Land, Inequality in Incomes: Do Markets Help or Hurt and When? * Chapter 6: Conclusions.