Land Ownership Inequality And Rural Factor Markets In Turkey: A Study For Critically Evaluating Market Friendly Reforms (the Economics Of The Middle East)

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. Unal 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. Fatma Gul Unal analyzes the interconnection between inequality and rural factor markets. Its scope is the intersection of agriculture and inequality. Sheinvestigates 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 Fatma Gul Unal analyzes the interconnection between inequality and rural factor markets. Its scope is the intersection of agriculture and inequality. Sheinvestigates 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 Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction: Why Agriculture?....Pages 1-38 A Portrait of Turkish Agriculture: Inequality and its Discontents....Pages 39-62 Sharecropping or Fixed-Rent Tenancy?....Pages 63-94 Testing for Inverse Size-Yield Relationship in Turkish Agriculture....Pages 95-127 Market Failure and Land Concentration in Turkey....Pages 129-152 Conclusion....Pages 153-178 Back Matter....Pages 179-206 UEnal 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.