Income inequality and poverty in Hungary in the mid 1990s

Éltető, Ödön and Havasi, Éva (1999) Income inequality and poverty in Hungary in the mid 1990s. Hungarian Statistical Review, 77 (SN3). pp. 49-70. ISSN 0039-0690

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Abstract

The first part of the paper, on the basis of the 1996 Income Survey of the HCSO, presents the income distribution and income inequality in Hungary in the mid 1990s and makes comparisons with data referring to the before transition period. The second part of the study discusses poverty issues such as how to measure the poverty, the various possibilities of choosing the poverty line and its consequences on poverty measures and the composition of the poor. The paper ends with some concluding remarks.

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