The authors investigate the dynamics of poverty and income inequality in a cross-section of socio-economic groups and … rapidly increasing urban poverty accompanied by rising income inequality, declining poverty -growth elasticities, and … significant changes in the poverty map. In rural areas, the incidence of poverty remained the same and income inequality did not …

The authors compare three approaches to linking representative-household macro models with micro household income data … in terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of policy shocks. These approaches … different results in absolute terms, they show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty …

respondent characteristics. They propose a panel data model to high-quality panel data for Russia for 1994-96, they find that … some results widely reported in past studies of subjective well-being appear to be robust but others do not. Household …

This paper investigates the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique …

The authors describe trends in single parenthood in Russia, examining factors that affect living arrangements in single …-mother families. Before economic reform, single mothers and their children were somewhat protected form poverty by government … assistance (income support, subsidized child care, and full employment guarantees). Economic reform in Russia has reduced …

? Which coping strategies have been most effective in reducing poverty for different groups of households? And how have people … evaluations of coping strategies used by household survey respondents to mitigate the effects of the Russian financial crisis on … their analysis show that a household's choice of survival strategy, strongly depends on its human capital: the higher its …

This paper analyzes the dynamics of poverty and income inequality during the recovery phase of the transition that … urban areas. In a context of rising income inequality and widening urban-rural income and poverty gaps, the benefits of … growth were not equally distributed, and poverty persisted in a number of regions (particularly the regions of Latgale and …

movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular … the past few years to reduce poverty while still experiencing positive economic growth. The authors show that in Poland …, poverty-reducing growth depends heavily on the ability of the economy to generate jobs. During the early years of transition …

they incorporate all 55,000 households from the Russian Household Budget Survey as "real" households in the model. This is …, they include foreign direct investment and Dixit-Stiglitz endogenous productivity effects in their trade and poverty … of the estimated gains falling within a range between 2 and 25 percent increases in household income. They show that …

The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare … implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple … theoretical model that describes household compliance decisions with respect to enlistment. The authors use several econometric …