This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of post-socialist
countries across Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It
traces the impacts in terms of poverty well-being and inequality of over two decades of
transformation addressing both the legacy effects of socialist welfare systems and the
installation of new social political and economic structures and in many cases new
independent nation-states. Authors from different disciplines address key aspects of social
protection including health care poverty reduction measures active labour market policies
pension systems and child welfare systems.
