This paper analyses regional data on inequality and poverty in Russia during 1994-2000 using published series from the … regionally representative Household Budget Survey. The paper finds that the share of inequality in Russia coming from the between … Russia over a ten-year time horizon. The projections show that if the observed trend continues, by 2010 the absolute majority …

In this paper we analyze if an `urban mortality penalty' exists for today's developing countries, repeating the history …-Saharan African countries for differences in child and adult mortality between rural and urban areas. Our findings indicate that child … mortality is higher in rural areas for almost all countries. On average child mortality rates are 13.6 percent in rural areas …

age-specific mortality rates and differences in "survivability". Declining age-specific mortality rates increases life … recent widening of mortality rates between rich and poor due to lifestyle-related diseases does not explain much of the rise … poor, made initial differences in lifestyle-related mortality more consequential via survivability. …

This paper analyzes the inequality of personal earnings in the Czech Republic since the early transition from communism … of transition, but later subsided. Earnings polarization was apparent for all sex and education subgroups between the …

economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self …

, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition … story, in which changes in income distribution result from the shift from plan to market. Third is incomplete transition …

, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition … story, in which changes in income distribution result from the shift from plan to market. Third is incomplete transition …