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Poverty, Inequality and Well-Being in the Global East: bringing the 'social' back in

More than a quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the beginning of the wars of the Yugoslav succession, this book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of post-socialist countries across Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It traces the impacts, in terms of poverty, well-being and inequality, of over two decades of transformation, addressing both the legacy effects of socialist welfare systems and the installation of new social, political and economic structures and, in many cases, new independent nation-states. It addresses different phases both of reform and of approaches to welfare, paying particular attention to the economic and financial crisis of the late 2000s. The book examines the rescaling of welfare arrangements, the privileging of ‘economic’ over ‘social’ policies, and the financial, institutional and capacity constraints which, at times, have resulted in reforms being both ineffective and inequitable.

social policy, welfare, Eastern Europe

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