The deep economic crisis that characterized Eastern Europe in the 1980's had a strong impact on average incomes of the population and on the percentage of people living below the poverty line. The situation deteriorated most sharply in Poland, where the percentage of the poor in total population increased from less than 10 percent before the crisis to more than 20 percent by the late 1980's. In Yugoslavia, increase was somewhat less (from 17 to 25 percent) while in Hungary overall poverty rate remained constant. Perhaps as important was the change in composition of poverty; before the crisis most of the poor lived in rural areas, now most of the poor live in cities. Social groups most affected by the economic decline are urban, socialized sector workers; their real wages, or real per capita income of their households, having declined by more than 30 percent in Poland and Yugoslavia. Reduction in income was accompanied by an unchanged pattern of distribution as socialized sector wages were generally cut uniformly across the board.
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