Title:	Land Ownership Inequality and Rural Factor Markets in Turkey
Authors:	Fatma Gül Ünal
Keywords:	Land tenure—Turkey
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	This book is about inequality in agriculture. It analyzes the interconnection between inequality and rural factor markets. Its scope is the intersection of agriculture and inequality. It investigates 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. Therefore, the core theme in this book is the “connectedness” 1 between land ownership inequality and how markets mediate economic opportunities to people. The main issue we focus on is how existing inequalities perpetuate inequalities through markets, and limit markets’ ability to function well, that is to distribute economic opportunities to those who are efficient producers. The main argument is that rural factor markets are prone to reproducing initial inequalities rather than redressing them because of existing inequalities in land—and thereby power as land begets political and economic power. In addition, economic and social determinants of participation in tenancy and labor markets are analyzed as they are affected by landownership inequality. This book distinguishes itself from the existing literature on rural markets inequality nexus by being one of the very few studies that provides empirical evidence using micro household data, and also by providing a unique index to measure the extent of how well markets distribute economic opportunities. Moreover, it is one of the few studies that look at the causes of rural inequality not only as an outcome of malfunctioning markets but as a reason of the process itself that creates inequality. Last but not least, another important contribution of the book is the fact that, one of the backbone chapters of the book, the section where we look at allocative efficiency in Turkish agriculture by testing for an inverse size-yield relationship across farms, is the first and only existing study on Turkey.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/57727
ISBN:	978-1-137-11088-6
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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