Rural-Urban Poverty Differences in Transition Countries

Karen Macours and Johan Swinnen

World Development, 2008, vol. 36, issue 11, 2170-2187

Abstract: Summary This paper uses new poverty data based on household level surveys to analyze changes in rural poverty and rural-urban poverty differences in 23 transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The paper presents a series of hypotheses to explain differences across countries and changes over time.

Keywords: transition; rural; poverty; Eastern; Europe; former; Soviet; Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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