Gorton M., Hubbard C. and Hubbard L. The folly of European Union policy transfer: why the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) does not fit Central and Eastern Europe, Regional Studies. This paper assesses the appropriateness of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for meeting rural development challenges in the New Member States (NMS). It argues that while the mitigation of structural problems confronting rural areas in these countries is critical to meeting the challenge of effectively integrating Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) into the European Union, the CAP is poorly suited to this task. Overall, the CAP was insufficiently reformed to accommodate CEE accession effectively and it represents a failure of the European Union to adjust adequately from an exclusively Western European institution into an appropriate pan-European organization. Gorton M., Hubbard C. et Hubbard L. La folie d'elargir les politiques de l'Ue: la Pac, pourquoi elle ne convient pas aux Peco, Regional Studies. Cet art...

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The Folly of European Union Policy Transfer: Why the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Does Not Fit Central and Eastern Europe

A new system will lead to an optimal path of land consolidation spatial management in China

Analysis of rural development policy networks in Greece: Is LEADER really different?

Determining the effects of land consolidation on the multifunctionlity of the cropland production system in China using a SPA-fuzzy assessment model

The impact of off-farm income on farm technical efficiency of Slovenian Farm Accountancy Data Network farms is analysed for 2004–08 employing stochastic frontier analysis. Results suggest that family farms and off-farm income are dominant in the farming structures. Estimations confirm technical efficiency is slightly higher for farms with off-farm income. The quantile regression analysis confirmed the positive impact of farm size and negative impact of government subsidies on technical efficiency of farms with and without off-farm incomes. The impact of family farm organisation on farm technical efficiency is positive for farms without off-farm income but differs by quantiles of technical efficiency for farms with off-farm income.

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