No . 575 Market Failure and Land Concentration
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The author wishes to thank the Institute of Turkish Studies, Georgetown University; and the Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts Amherst for funding this research. In addition, she is grateful to Mohan Rao and James Boyce for their insightful comments and questions. The author is particularly indebted to the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture and to Levent Yener, director of the Agricultural Reform Implementation Project, for providing the 2002 Quantitative Household Survey dataset. Responsibility for any mistakes contained in this article is exclusively the author’s.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009