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 … an internationally high level. Based on these two findings, the paper projects dynamics of inequality and poverty in …

This paper applies a new decomposition technique to the study of variations in poverty across the regions of Russia …. The procedure, which is based on the Shapley value in cooperative game theory, allows the deviation in regional poverty … levels from the all- Russia average to be attributed to three proximate sources; mean income per capita, inequality, and …