Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey

Ünal uses Turkey as a case study to investigate the effectiveness and efficiency of land and labor markets in spreading economic opportunities within agriculture and its ability to reduce rural poverty.

Auteur
FATMA GÜL ÜNALEconomics Specialist for UNDP/Regional Bueau for Asia and the Pacifica, Regional Strategy and Policy Unit.She has taught economics at Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA, Bucknell University, and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is a staff economist at the Center for Popular Economics.

Contenu
Introduction: Why Agriculture? A Portrait of Turkish Agriculture: Inequality and its Discontents Sharecropping or Fixed Rent Tenancy? Testing For Inverse Size-Yield Relationship in Turkish Agriculture Conclusions