Irna H. 2017. “Soft budgets and elastic debt: farm liabilities in the agrarian political economy of post-Soviet Tajikistan” The Journal of Peasant Studies
When the above article was first published online, the following sentences were written incorrectly as follows:
On page 3
accordingly, … demand is hardly constrained by solvency considerations. The firm, as buyer, tries to acquire as much input as possible in order that shortage could not hinder production. At the other side, the firm, as seller, faces an almost insatiable demand. (Kornai 1980, 29)
The corrected sentence should be as follows:
[a]ccordingly (…) demand is hardly constrained by solvency considerations. The firm, as buyer, tries to acquire as much input as possible in order that shortage should not hinder production. The other side of the same phenomenon is that the firm, as seller, faces an almost insatiable demand (Kornai 1980, 29, emphasis in original).
On page 4
The Tajik saying that ‘cotton is the country’s wealth’ (‘Pakhta boygarii davlat ast’) could be understood as a justification for the state’s pressure to grow the crop
The corrected sentence should be as follows:
The Tajik saying that ‘cotton is the state’s wealth’ (‘Pakhta boigarii davlat ast’) could be understood as a justification for the state’s pressure to grow the crop.
On page 8
Pressured by international donors, the Tajik government adopted Cabinet Resolution (111) on ‘Freedom to Farm’ in March 2007, which would guarantee farmers freedom selection of crops and crop outlets.
The corrected sentence should be as follows:
Pressured by international donors, the Tajik government adopted Cabinet Resolution 111 on ‘Freedom to Farm’ in March 2007, which would guarantee farmers the freedom in the selection of crops and crop outlets.
On page 14
The futures contract scheme through which debt had emerged had long been abolished, but the ‘politics of contract farming’ (cf. Clapp’s 1994; Burawoy 1985) had survived
The corrected sentence should be as follows:
The futures contract scheme through which debt had emerged had long been abolished, but the ‘politics of contract farming’ (cf. Clapp 1994; Burawoy 1985) had survived
The author apologizes for this error.