When things fall apart
Subtitle: qualitative studies of poverty in the former Soviet Union
By: edited by Nora Dudwick, Elizabeth Gomart, and Alexandre Marc, with Kathleen Kuehnast ; foreword by Ravi Kanbur
Contributors: Dudwick, Nora; Gomart, Elizabeth, 1967-; Marc, Alexandre, 1956-
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: Poverty -- Former Soviet republics; Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: A window on social reality: qualitative methods in poverty research; title: From Soviet expectations to post-Soviet realities: poverty during the transition; title: Poverty shock: the impact of rapid economic change on the women of the Kyrgyz Republic / Kathleen Kuehnast; title: Between civil war and land reform: among the poorest of the poor in Tajikistan / Elizabeth Gomart; title: Standing on a knife's edge: doing business in Uzbekistan / Elizabeth Gomart; title: When the lights went out: poverty in Armenia / Nora Dudwick; title: No way back: social exclusion among the poorest in Armenia / Elizabeth Gomart; title: No guests at our table: social fragmentation in Georgia / Nora Dudwick; title: "Children have become a luxury:" everyday dilemmas of poverty in Ukraine / Catherine Wanner and Nora Dudwick; title: After the return: the struggle of the Crimean Tatars to reintegrate / Elizabeth Gomart; title: Eating from one pot: survival strategies in Moldova's collapsing rural economy / Hermine G. De Soto and Nora Dudwick; title: Prosperity and despair: Riga and the other Latvia / The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Riga), with Nora Dudwick