Commander, Simon John; Tolstopiatenko, Andrei; Yemtsov, … - 2014
Contrary to popular perception, Russia entered the transition with significant inequality. Using the large Russian … large, associated shift in the structure of income. The paper also looks at the incidence and depth of poverty over the … period 1992-96. At the start of transition, roughly half the population of households fell below the poverty line. While this …