Land, Interlinking Markets and Rural Poverty in Transition Countries JOHAN F.M. SWINNEN * KAREN MACOURS ** LIESBET VRANKEN *** * LICOS Center for Transition Economics and Department of Economics, University of Leuven, Belgium ** School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. ** LICOS Center for Transition Economics and Department of Economics, University of Leuven, Belgium A Paper for Presentation to the Workshop on ‘Beyond Land and Markets in Transition Economies’, as part of the International Conference on Land, Poverty, Social Justice and Development 1