On second thought, this data looks kind of screwy. No way are there fewer people living in poverty in Ukraine and Georgia as a percentage of the population than in Russia. Russian wages are about three times as high as Ukrainian ones, and last time I checked the only fSU country with a higher per capita income than Russia was Estonia.
-----Original Message----- From: "Chris Doss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 13:19:44 +0300 Subject: [PEN-L] WORLD BANK: BELARUS HAS FEWEST POOR PEOPLE IN CIS > > WORLD BANK: BELARUS HAS FEWEST POOR PEOPLE IN CIS > > MOSCOW, March 4, 2004. (RIA Novosti correspondent) - Belarus has the lowest > number of poor people among the CIS countries, the Belarussian Embassy in > Moscow informed RIA Novosti on Thursday quoting the data of the World Bank. > > Belarus holds 85th place in the world for its poverty level. The share of > its population that lives below the poverty line is 22 percent. > > Russia holds 52nd place.
