A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia

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This paper applies a new decomposition technique to the study of variations in poverty across the regions of Russia. The procedure, which is based on the Shapley value in cooperative game theory, allows the deviation in regional poverty levels from the all- Russia average to be attributed to three proximate sources; mean income per capita, inequality, and local prices. Contrary to expectation, regional poverty variations turn out to be due more to differences in inequality across regions than to differences in real income per capita. However, when real income per capita is split into nominal income and price components, differences in nominal incomes emerge as more important than either inequality or price effects for the majority of regions.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIDER Discussion Paper ; No. 2003/74

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Statistical Simulation Methods: General ; Index Numbers and Aggregation; Leading indicators ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions ; Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics; Health; Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
• Subject: poverty ; Russia ; regions ; decomposition ; Armut ; Räumliche Verteilung ; Russland

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kolenikov, Stanislav ; Shorrocks, Anthony
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (where): Helsinki
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53118
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET