Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
Published: March 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780312224363
Subjects: Economics - Theory; International - Economics; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Research; Economic And Technical Assistance; Poverty; Business / Economics / Finance; 1989-; Economic conditions; Europe, Eastern; Former Soviet republics; Politics/International Relations
Description: "This study examines poverty and social assistance in six countries - Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Russia, and Kyrgyz Republic - comparing the poverty profiles and the correlates of poverty between the two regions. The study finds that the profile of poverty is more sharply defined in Eastern Europe than in the former Soviet Union, where poverty is more widespread.

This holds the potential for better targeting of social assistance in Eastern Europe, and the study proposes a novel two-step approach to identify the poor."--BOOK JACKET.