A Profile of Poverty in Kyrgyzstan

Robert Ackland and Jane Falkingham

Chapter 5 in Household Welfare in Central Asia, 1997, pp 81-99 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract As we saw in Chapter 1, poverty in Central Asia is not new. The transition to a market economy has been accompanied by significant declines in real incomes, widening income distributions and falling output. This has exacerbated poverty in Central Asia, bringing new groups into poverty and intensifying the privation of groups already less well-off. This chapter uses data from the Kyrgyzstan Multipurpose Poverty Survey to examine how the incidence of poverty has changed during transition in one Central Asian republic. Before looking at Kyrgyzstan in particular, it is useful to review the evidence concerning the level and composition of poverty prior to transition in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) more generally, and to speculate on how the profile of poverty might have changed during transition.

Keywords: Poverty Line; Household Head; Gini Coefficient; Poverty Rate; Former Soviet Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25475-0_5

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