TY - BOOK ID - 84541226 TI - Transition and Regional Inequality in Russia : Reorganization or Procrastination? AU - Dolinskaya, Irina. AU - Tytell, Irina. PY - 2002 SN - 1462346839 1452774412 1282044192 145190360X 9786613797339 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Fiscal Policy KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Personal income KW - Income inequality KW - Income distribution KW - Total expenditures KW - Fiscal stance KW - National accounts KW - Expenditure KW - Fiscal policy KW - Income KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Russian Federation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84541226 AB - This paper analyzes the evolution of interregional income inequality during transition in Russia. The transition matrix approach reveals that between 1991 and 1997 income mobility tended toward a highly uneven long-term distribution with the majority of regions at low income levels and a minority of higher-income regions, in sharp contrast to pretransition times. The ordered logit analysis suggests that the more successful regions prospered on account of their natural resources, while continuing to resist economic reorganization by supporting traditional enterprises. The less-successful regions appeared trapped at low income levels due to uncompetitive industries and lack of resources needed for restructuring. ER -