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Using the 2008 cross-sectional wave of the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions
(EU-SILC) survey and multilevel modeling techniques, this article explores the macro-level
determinants of the gender-poverty gap in the ten post-socialist EU member states. In dialogue
with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in
Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital-led economic growth is associated
with a larger gender-poverty gap in Central and Eastern Europe, while generous
welfare policies, specifically higher levels of spending on pensions and family policies, are
correlated with women?s lower relative destitution. These findings evaluate the impact of
neoliberal style ?economic development? on gender inequality in a geopolitically specific
context and suggest that structural adjustment and global market integration may exacerbate
women?s vulnerability even when they are well equipped with human capital and other
resources to compete with men in the labor market.
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