Autori
Micklewright, John
Marnie, S.

Titolo
Poverty in pre-reform Uzbekistan: what do official data really reveal?
Periodico
European University Institute of Badia Fiesolana (Fi). Department of Economics - Working papers
Anno: 1993 - Fascicolo: 35 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 32

Application of a conventional all-Union per-capita income poverty line for 1989 shows the incidence of poverty in the Central Asian republics of the former USSR to have been far higher than in the European republics. The paper investigates this phenomenon, concentrating on Uzbekistan, the largest Central Asian republic, and taking the Ukraine as a basis for comparison from among the European republics. The analysis is based on 1989 data from the Family Budget Survey, a source which has been rightly criticised but at the same time has been far from fully exploited. We consider (i) the importance of allowing for household size and composition, (ii) the presence and valuation of agricultural income in kind, (iii) the distribution of food shares, as an alternative measure of living standards. We draw out the implications of the analysis for the measurement of poverty and associated issues in post-Union Uzbekistan.



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