This is a careful, comprehensive and scholarly work which documents the path of agricultural and rural reform in Azerbaijan and persuasively links rural economic performance to policy decisions. Because of the solid economic analysis and the cogent comparisons with other transition economies, it is far more than a study of Azerbaijan. It is a treatise on how policies drive economic performance and how policy differences can explain divergent performance paths in transition economies.

William H. Meyers, University of Missouri-Columbia

Azerbaijan is one of the few countries which instituted a land reform leading to high agricultural performance. Hence, this book is much more than just a country-specific case study. It will spur the debate on the design of land reform and farm sizes andits impact on world agriculture. It should be required reading for academics and policy makers who want to understand the present poor performance of agriculture in many transition and developing countries and who want to develop policy alternatives whichmake the disadvantaged in the world more self-sufficient. Ulrich Koester, Kiel Universityyy

Ulrich Koester, Kiel University

Azerbaijan is one of the few countries which instituted a land reform leading to high agricultural performance. Hence, this book is much more than just a country-specific case study. It will spur the debate on the design of land reform and farm sizes and its impact on world agriculture. It should be required reading for academics and policy makers who want to understand the present poor performance of agriculture in many transition and developing countries and who want to develop policy alternatives which make the disadvantaged in the world more self-sufficient.
Ulrich Koester, Kiel University

Ulrich Koester, Kiel University