Max Spoor is Associate Professor of Transition Economics at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, and Visiting Professor at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI).

• 1. The Rural Development Challenge of Transition Max Spoor 2. Land, Interlinking Markets and Rural Poverty in Transition Countries Karen Macours, LiesbetVranken and JohanF.M. Swinnen 3. Land, Markets and Rural Poverty in the CIS-7 Max Spoor 4. Land Reform in Post-Communist Russia: The Effects of Household Labor Stephen K. Wegren 5. Household Plots and their Symbiosis with Large Farm Enterprises in Russia Oane Visser 6. Land Reform and Interlocking agricultural markets in Moldova Felicia Izman and Max Spoor 7. The Reshaping of Inequality in Uzbekistan: Reforms, Land, and Rural Incomes Tommaso Trevisani 8. Cotton and Rural Livelihoods in Former Soviet Central Asia Max Spoor 9. Land and Rural Poverty in Armenia Aghassi Mkrtchyan, Gohar Minasyan and Max Spoor 10.Agrarian Transformations in Vietnam: Land Reform, Markets and Poverty Steffanie Scott 11. Land Markets, Property and Disputes in China Peter Ho 12. Cotton and Rural Income Development in Xinjiang Max Spoor and Shi Xiaoping

'A serious attempt to evaluate critically the progress up till now of land reform in the transition countries. Particularly valuable are the attention to rural poverty, the wide range of countries covered, the case studies of countries such as Moldova, Russia and Vietnam, and the detailed studies of particular issues (eg cotton production in Central Asia, and the relationship between private property rights and investment in Chinese agriculture). An important contribution to studies of transition, development, poverty alleviation, agricultural economics, and the countries concerned.' Michael Ellman (Amsterdam University, the Netherlands)