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Inequalities in middle-income Europe and Central Asia: A tale of three studies
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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
social policy; Turkey; sustainable development; tax policy; tax reform; inequality; Eastern Europe; Central Asia; economic development (on national level)
Classification
Economic Policy
Free Keywords
economic transition; social protection; social contract; middle-income countries
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 441-448
Journal
Russian Journal of Economics, 5 (2019) 4
ISSN
2618-7213
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0