The great divide: 'ruralisation' of poverty in Russia
利用2000-2004年俄罗斯纵向监测调查数据，发现城市贫困下降速度是农村的两倍，到2004年贫困首次成为主要农村现象，且不受人口特征、贫困线或大城市增长的影响。
Using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the period 2000--2004 we investigate poverty trends in Russia. We find that urban poverty declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a largely rural phenomenon for the first time since transition began. This finding does not stem from changing population characteristics or shares, is not dependent on the use of a particular poverty line nor is it driven by the rapid expansions that have occurred in Moscow, St Petersburg or other urban areas. Our findings flesh out those of Ravallion and colleagues, who, in contrast to other regions, 'find signs' of a ruralisation of poverty in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. We attribute some of the differential to the labour market. Copyright The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. All rights reserved., Oxford University Press.