TY - JOUR
T1 - Agrarian differentiation in post-socialist societies: Evidence from three upland villages in North-Western Vietnam
AU - Sikor, Thomas
PY - 2001/11
Y1 - 2001/11
N2 - The literature on post-socialist transformations displays a fairly broad consensus that changes in macro structures of state and economy generate or increase rural inequality. This article examines the distributional effects of macro changes in Vietnamese villages. Findings from local-level research highlight the multiple ways in which people react to changes in macro structures. Core fields of negotiation by local people include exchange relations, the use of surplus, and land tenure. Local negotiation may lead to local-level trajectories of agrarian change that differ significantly from national-level changes. Changes in macro structures thus may not substantially alter the underlying process of differentiation. Rural people may be rich and poor for the same reasons as under collective agriculture, though income differences may have become more accentuated.
AB - The literature on post-socialist transformations displays a fairly broad consensus that changes in macro structures of state and economy generate or increase rural inequality. This article examines the distributional effects of macro changes in Vietnamese villages. Findings from local-level research highlight the multiple ways in which people react to changes in macro structures. Core fields of negotiation by local people include exchange relations, the use of surplus, and land tenure. Local negotiation may lead to local-level trajectories of agrarian change that differ significantly from national-level changes. Changes in macro structures thus may not substantially alter the underlying process of differentiation. Rural people may be rich and poor for the same reasons as under collective agriculture, though income differences may have become more accentuated.
KW - agrarian change
KW - income distribution
KW - land tenure
KW - rural economy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0035195069&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-7660.00232
DO - 10.1111/1467-7660.00232
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035195069
SN - 0012-155X
VL - 32
SP - 923
EP - 949
JO - Development and Change
JF - Development and Change
IS - 5
ER -