Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income - Softcover

Atkinson, Anthony Barnes; Micklewright, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521438829 ISBN 13: 9780521438827

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Who gains and who loses from economic transformation in Eastern Europe is a key question--but one that is too rarely discussed. To understand the implications of the move to a market economy, it is necessary to know more about the distribution of income under Communism. This book assembles evidence about earnings, dispersion, income inequality and poverty in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, the USSR (with separate information for Russia, the Ukraine and other republics). It adopts a comparative perspective--bringing out the differences between these countries and the West, as well as within Central and Eastern Europe. It shows that widely held beliefs about Eastern Europe under Communism are not borne out by the evidence.

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Book Description:

Who gains and who loses from economic transformation in Eastern Europe is a key question--but one that is too rarely understood. This book assembles evidence about earnings, dispersion, income inequality and poverty in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, The USSR, Russia, The Ukraine, etc...

Review:

"As well as contributing authoritative calculations on comparative income inequality, this volume is clearly destined to be a major research resource for future scholarship in the area." Journal of Economic Literature

"...will become the authoritative source for academics and researchers examining both developments in regional trade and the distribution of income during and after the transformation process of the socialist economies....[T]he book is a veritable treasure." Hans-Pater Brunner, Slavic Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0521438829
• ISBN 13: 9780521438827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466