Gerry, Christopher J; Nivorozhkin, Eugene; Rigg, John - Centre for Comparative Economics, School of Slavonic … - 2007
Using data from the RLMS for the period 2000-2004 we investigate poverty trends in Russia. We find that urban poverty … declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a largely rural phenomenon for the … dependent on the use of a particular poverty line nor is it driven by the rapid expansions that have occurred in Moscow, St …