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- Title
LEADER, a New Social Order, and the Central- and East-European Countries.
- Authors
Kovách, Imre
- Abstract
This article aims to consider the relevance of the Liaisons Entre Actions de Développement de l'Economie Rurale program of the European Union to the context of the Central-and East-European countries and in particular, to Hungary. Apparently, in the new era, socialist economic, political and social institutions have been replaced by the privatization of land and other fixed assets, the wholesale conversion to a market economy, the liberalization of agricultural and rural policy interventions and the emergence of new economic and policy elements. The nature of the rural crisis that has emerged during the first decade of post-socialism is revealed in the decline in the relative importance of agricultural production to a level of comparable with those in European Union member states, and by rates of rural unemployment that are higher than those in the European Union. The situation is exacerbated by the paradox of a rural population that is allegedly increasing, despite the fact that the negative aspects of post-socialism affected rural areas to an extent than they did the cities. The implications of this is that the options for rural development available to elements in the post-socialist countryside echo those of their partners in European Union member states.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; EUROPEAN Union countries; SOCIALISM; POLITICAL science; PRIVATIZATION; ECONOMIC policy; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL policy; RURAL unemployment; RURAL development
- Publication
Sociologia Ruralis, 2000, Vol 40, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0038-0199
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9523.00140