IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/revinw/v40y1994i4p395-414.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Poverty In Pre‐Reform Uzbekistan: What Do Official Data Really Reveal?

Author

Listed:
  • Sheila Marnie
  • Hohn Micklewright

Abstract

Using 1989 household survey data, we investigate large differences in poverty measured with a conventional all‐Union per capita income line between Uzbekistan, the largest Central Asian republic of the former U.S.S.R., and Ukraine as an example of a European republic. We show that (i) differences between the two countries in the distribution of household size is not the main explanation, (ii) undervaluation of agricultural income in kind understates the welfare of rural households, something of particular importance in Uzbekistan, and (iii) indicators of food consumption provide important additional information. Lessons are drawn for the measurement of poverty in post‐Union Uzbekistan.

Suggested Citation

  • Sheila Marnie & Hohn Micklewright, 1994. "Poverty In Pre‐Reform Uzbekistan: What Do Official Data Really Reveal?," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 40(4), pages 395-414, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:40:y:1994:i:4:p:395-414
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1994.tb00083.x
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1994.tb00083.x
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1994.tb00083.x?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Flemming, J.S. & Micklewright, John, 2000. "Income distribution, economic systems and transition," Handbook of Income Distribution, in: A.B. Atkinson & F. Bourguignon (ed.), Handbook of Income Distribution, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 14, pages 843-918, Elsevier.
    2. Branko Milanovic, 1999. "Explaining the increase in inequality during transition," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 7(2), pages 299-341, July.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:revinw:v:40:y:1994:i:4:p:395-414. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/iariwea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.