Inequalities in middle-income Europe and Central Asia: A tale of three studies

Ben Slay () and Tahmina Anvarova ()
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Ben Slay: United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, New York, United States of America
Tahmina Anvarova: United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, New York, United States of America

Russian Journal of Economics, 2019, vol. 5, issue 4, 441-448

Abstract: This paper focuses on how questions of inequalities in middle-income countries in Europe and Central Asia are dealt with in three recent studies: the EBRD's "Transition Report 2016–17"; the World Bank's 2018 study "Toward a new social contract: Taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia"; and UNDP's "Regional human development report 2016. Progress at risk: Inequalities and human development in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Central Asia." While the three studies differ in terms of objectives, conceptual frameworks, country coverage, data and indicators, and policy recommendations, they also share important commonalities — particularly in terms of creating "regional" inequality narratives for transition economies, reconciling official data with common perceptions of inequalities in the region; improving data quality, quantity and availability, and changes in tax and social policies.

Keywords: inequality; economic transition; economic development; sustainable development; tax policy; tax reform; social policy; social protection; social contract; middle-income countries; Eastern Europe; Turkey; Central Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 I32 P29 P31 P36 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.32609/j.ruje..49296

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