Аграрные проблемы и новые модели экономического развития в странах Востока: Коллективная монография

Аграрные проблемы и новые модели экономического развития в странах Востока: Коллективная монография

Agricultural Problems and New Models of Economic Development in the East: Collective Monograph.

Editor: Deryugina Irina
Compilator: Deryugina Irina
Reviewer: Romanova Natalya, Yakovlev Alexander

Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Москва, 2021, 544 p.

The collective monograph is devoted to topical issues of our time – agricultural problems and new models of development of the countries of the East. For the past two years, the world has been living in the harsh conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The monograph comprehensively examines the impact of the pandemic on the food security of the countries of Asia and Africa,
on the increase in poverty and inequality in the countries of the East, and on the choice of new models of economic development by these countries. The book examines: the dynamics of economic growth in the agricultural sphere of the leading Asian countries; the impact of agrarian reforms on the development of agriculture; the level of food security in a number of countries, special emphasis is placed on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; new models of economic growth in Asia and North Africa are also presented, new forms of production organization in the financial and agricultural spheres are evaluated, in particular the impact of TNCs and innovative financial technologies.

FOREWORD...11
CHAPTER 1. SOUTH ASIA...26
§1.1. Pakistan: transformation of the agricultural sector and economic growth in...26
§1.2. Bangladesh: agricultural development and food security in 1971-2020...43
§1.3. India: agricultural sector from import substitution to export orientation...65
§1.4. India: agrarian reforms of the Narendra Modi government – content, forecasts, critical analysis... 86
CHAPTER 2. MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA...97
§2.1. Israel: the role of agricultural settlements in the nation-building...97
§2.2. Turkey: on the problem of slowing economic growth after 2012...116
§2.3. Countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf: food security issues.... 131
§2.4. Egypt: food security...159
§2.5. Algeria: development of the agricultural sector...171
CHAPTER 3. EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, OCEANIA ...182
§3.1. Japan: ways to solve agrarian problems...182
§3.2. Some feature of the industrial structure of economy of the Southeast Asian countries and the change in the place of the agricultural sector...205
§3.3. Philippines: agrarian reform under the R. Duterte administration – preliminary results and perceptions in the society...219
§3.4. China: the situation on the food market in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic...240
§3.5. China: regional agrarian problems in the focus of research activities of national «think tanks»...264
§3.6. China: the legal status of land and natural resources in the Civil Code...8
CHAPTER 4. CENTRAL ASIA...301
§4.1. Kazakhstan: economic growth in the agricultural sector in 1991-2018...301
§4.2. Kazakhstan: food security – current state and prospects...334
§4.3. Uzbekistan: self-sufficiency in food and sustainable development of the agricultural sector...345
CHAPTER 5. AFRICA: PROBLEMS OF FOOD SECURITY...363
§5.1. Agriculture and food security in Africa in the context of covid-19: the impact of restrictive measures...363
§5.2. Post-harvest losses and food security in East African countries...374
CHAPTER 6. THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE PROBLEMS OF POVERTY...392
§6.1. Poverty and inequality in the socio-economic development of the world: the pandemic and its influence...392
§6.2. The pandemic and the increase in the number of hungry people: reliability of estimates... 402
CHAPTER 7. NEW MODELS OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE EASTERN COUNTRIES……… 415
§7.1. Transnational corporations and agriculture of African and Asian countries: non-equity modes of
international production...415
§7.2. Hydrogen Energy: opportunities for Africa and Asia...435
§7.3. Maghreb: prospects of participation in new European hydrogen economy...448
§7.4. The COVID-19 pandemic and specific tools of monetary policy in developing countries...464
§7.5. Financial technologies: changing the model of providing financial services in the countries of the East...473
§7.6. A new socially oriented model of China's development in the directives of the 14th five-year plan...485
§7.7. Republic of Korea: green technologies as a driver of economic growth and prospects for the development of hydrogen energy...492
CONCLUSION. WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR US?... 501
REFERENCES...506
SUMMARY...521
ABOUT THE AUTHORS...538