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Land Reform and Farming in Interwar Europe

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dc.affiliation.institutoUC3M. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.contributor.authorSimpson, James
dc.contributor.editorUniversidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Socialeses
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-22T17:44:43Z
dc.date.available2022-12-22T17:44:43Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-22
dc.description.abstractWhy are some land reforms more successful than others? Interwar Europe provides an opportunity to answer this question as many countries, often at different levels of economic development, carried out major reforms. In agrarian societies in Eastern Europe, the pro-poor redistributive land reforms transferred a fifth of agricultural land and were expected to transform not just farming, but political life. Although farmers struggled because of insufficient land and weak markets, land reform allowed families to maintain food consumption in the 1930s by increasing selfsufficiency. By contrast, policy makers in transforming economies such as Czechoslovakia or Spain were divided between meeting the economic and political needs of those farmers living in acute poverty and responding to the struggling familyoperated commercial farmers. Land reform strengthened agrarian political parties, but these were generally too divided along nationalist cleavages to influence policy in the new successor states, and by regional differences created by uneven economic development in transforming economies.en
dc.identifier.issn2341-2542
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/36227
dc.identifier.uxxiDT/0000002033es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Papers in Economic Historyen
dc.relation.ispartofseries22-05
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEconomíaes
dc.subject.jelN54
dc.subject.jelO13
dc.subject.jelP14
dc.subject.jelQ12
dc.subject.jelQ13
dc.subject.otherLand Reformen
dc.subject.otherInterwar Europeen
dc.subject.otherAgrarianismen
dc.subject.otherFamily Farmsen
dc.subject.otherLand Inequality & Economic Growthen
dc.titleLand Reform and Farming in Interwar Europeen
dc.typeworking paper*
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