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Inequalities in middle-income Europe and Central Asia: A tale of three studies

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  • Ben Slay

    (United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, New York, United States of America)

  • Tahmina Anvarova

    (United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, New York, United States of America)

Abstract

This paper focuses on how questions of inequalities in middle-income countries in Europe and Central Asia are dealt with in three recent studies: the EBRD's "Transition Report 2016–17"; the World Bank's 2018 study "Toward a new social contract: Taking on distributional tensions in Europe and Central Asia"; and UNDP's "Regional human development report 2016. Progress at risk: Inequalities and human development in Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Central Asia." While the three studies differ in terms of objectives, conceptual frameworks, country coverage, data and indicators, and policy recommendations, they also share important commonalities — particularly in terms of creating "regional" inequality narratives for transition economies, reconciling official data with common perceptions of inequalities in the region; improving data quality, quantity and availability, and changes in tax and social policies.

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  • Ben Slay & Tahmina Anvarova, 2019. "Inequalities in middle-income Europe and Central Asia: A tale of three studies," Russian Journal of Economics, ARPHA Platform, vol. 5(4), pages 441-448, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:arh:jrujec:v:5:y:2019:i:4:p:441-448
    DOI: 10.32609/j.ruje..49296
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    Keywords

    inequality; economic transition; economic development; sustainable development; tax policy; tax reform; social policy; social protection; social contract; middle-income countries; Eastern Europe; Turkey; Central Asia;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • H55 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Social Security and Public Pensions
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • P29 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Other
    • P31 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions
    • P36 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions - - - Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training; Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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