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Poverty in Russia
Author(s) -
George Vic,
Rimachevskaya Natalia
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international social security review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1468-246X
pISSN - 0020-871X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-246x.1993.tb00360.x
Subject(s) - poverty , context (archaeology) , order (exchange) , development economics , culture of poverty , political science , soviet union , basic needs , political economy , sociology , economics , history , law , politics , archaeology , finance
This article concentrates on poverty debates during the last few years of the Soviet Union under Gorbachev and in Russia today under Yeltsin. Some references to previous years are made in order to provide some historical context for these debates. The article is divided into two parts: the first examines debates on the definitions of poverty, while the second looks at its depth and extent. The discussion will provide one more illustration of the now generally accepted thesis that the way poverty is defined inevitably affects the extent of measured poverty and the policy measures for its amelioration.