This text examines issues relating to the measurement and experience of poverty, and responses to it, in transition economies. As a whole, the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe have experienced the shock of declining living standards and increased poverty and destitution. The responses of governments and the peoples themselves to these problems, however, have varied considerably across the region. This book attempts to quantify and give meaning to the problem of poverty of economies in transition, and it considers some of the responses that the problem has generated. The contributors are...