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Title When things fall apart : qualitative studies of poverty in the former Soviet Union / edited by Nora Dudwick, Elizabeth Gomart, and Alexandre Marc, with Kathleen Kuehnast ; foreword by Ravi Kanbur.

Imprint Washington, DC : World Bank, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  339.460947 W574 2003    ---  Available
Description xv, 445 p. : maps, ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Window on social reality : qualitative methods in poverty research -- From Soviet expectations to post-Soviet realities : poverty during the transition -- Poverty shock : the impact of rapid economic change on the women of the Kyrgyz Republic / Kathleen Kuehnast -- Between civil war and land reform : among the poorest of the poor in Tajikistan / Elizabeth Gomart -- Standing on a knife's edge : doing business in Uzbekistan / Elizabeth Gomart -- When the lights went out : poverty in Armenia / Nora Dudwick -- No way back : social exclusion among the poorest in Armenia / Elizabeth Gomart -- No guests at our table : social fragmentation in Georgia / Nora Dudwick -- "Children have become a luxury" : everyday dilemmas of poverty in Ukraine / Catherine Wanner and Nora Dudwick -- After the return : the struggle of the Crimean Tatars to reintegrate / Elizabeth Gomart -- Eating from one pot : survival strategies in Moldova's collapsing rural economy / Hermine G. De Soto and Nora Dudwick -- Prosperity and despair : Riga and the other Latvia / The Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (Riga), with Nora Dudwick.
Subject Poverty -- Former Soviet republics.
Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions.
Added Author Dudwick, Nora.
Gomart, Elizabeth, 1967-
Marc, Alexandre, 1956-
ISBN 0821350676

 
    
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