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Has economic growth in Balkan Countries been pro-poor in the 2012-2017 period?
Zwierzchowski, Jan; Panek, Tomasz - In: Central European economic journal 9 (2022) 56, pp. 76-92
The study investigates whether economic growth in the Balkan countries was pro-poor in the most recent period. We also try to establish to what extent various measures of pro-poorness of economic growth produce consistent and comparable results. Firstly, concepts of pro-poor growth are defined...
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Social assistance in Central and Eastern Europe : features and characteristics
Avram, Silvia - 2013 - This version: 3/09/2013
This paper reviews the features of social assistance programs in Central and Eastern Europe in the mid 2000s along five dimensions, i.e. expenditure, entitlement rules, benefit levels, centralization of administration, and the provision of additional services. It finds that generally expenditure...
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Outcomes of social assistance in Central and Eastern Europe : a pre-transfer post-transfer comparison
Avram, Silvia - 2013 - This version: 4/09/2013
The poverty reduction potential of national social assistance programs in eight Central and Eastern European countries is examined using data from the EU-SILC. Results indicate that social assistance programs are a marginal component of the social protection system throughout the region. They...
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Children of Communism : the former party membership and demand for redistribution
Libman, Alexander; Popova, Olga - 2022
of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their children. Using the individual …-level survey data, we show that there are striking differences between Russia and the CEE countries in this respect. While in the … rest of the population, in Russia former CPSU members do not exhibit stronger preferences for redistribution - at the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471475
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Measuring and Monitoring Transitional Poverty
Zaman, Constantin - 2005
The relativity of poverty determines a certain degree of specificity in case of each country where the phenomenon is considerably spread over the population. In transitional countries poverty is determined to a large extent by the structural changes undertaken for adopting market rules in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014067328
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Poverty Transitions in Italy
Coppola, Lucia - 2014
In this paper we investigate the determinants of poverty transitions in Italy, using the EU-SILC panel survey (2007-2010). Our findings show that education and employment play a key role in preventing poverty, and ease poverty exits. Moreover, the presence of children and a new birth hamper...
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Is there poverty convergence?
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Klasen, Stephan; Wacker, Konstantin - 2017
Martin Ravallion ("Why Don't We See Poverty Convergence?" American Economic Review, 102(1): 504-23; 2012) presents evidence against the existence of proportionate convergence in global poverty rates despite convergence in household mean income levels and the link between income growth and poverty...
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Pro-Poor Growth During Exceptional Growth : Evidence from a Transition Economy
Verme, Paolo - 2007
, both income poverty and inequality have decreased significantly and growth has been 'pro-poor', which is explained by … changes in inequality accounting for almost all the changes in poverty. The elasticity of poverty with respect to both growth … and inequality is also found to be high. These findings suggest that GDP changes can be, at times, disjoint from household …
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The emerging aversion to inequality: Evidence from Poland 1992 - 2005
Grosfeld, Irena; Senik, Claudia - 2008
This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and … institute (CBOS) from 1992 to 2005, we identify a structural break in the relationship between income inequality and subjective … well-being. The downturn in the tolerance for inequality (1997) coincides with increasing distrust of political elites. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430800
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Speed and sequencing of transition reforms and income inequality: A panel data analysis
Aristei, David; Perugini, Cristiano - 2011
concerned the dynamics of income inequality. In this paper we analyse the heterogeneous effects of transition reforms on … inequality by explicitly considering their speed and sequencing. To this aim we identify seven transition models in which the 27 … transition patterns, which favoured a coordination of reforms especially in specific fields, were relatively less pro-inequality. …
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