Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a
multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors,
differing from context to context with no linear chain of cause and
effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by
an interrelated web of economic, social, psychological, cultural,
and political factors.
Focusing on countries-in-transition belonging to the former
Soviet bloc where the existence of poverty was officially denied
until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume examines the
ways in which each country is dealing with its newly acknowledged
and rapidly increasing poverty. The transition from socialism to
democracy and market economies has proved more difficult and costly
than anyone imagined. Scholars from the six countries examined here
profile and evaluate current social policies and programs on
poverty eradication and provide a comparative perspective that
ensures that culturally specific solutions can be found in place of
borrowed solutions from abroad -- solutions which have thus far
ignored the cultural factor and have thus failed to deliver.
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