much expenditure remains inefficient and ineffective in addressing the serious problem of poverty. More than a quarter of … the Russian population is poverty-stricken according to official criteria. Average wages are not much more than half of …

mechanisms and contributory social insurance programmes. This report on informality and poverty presents useful and critical …-depth analyses of the socioeconomic characteristics of informal workers and analyzing the relationship between household welfare and … formal/informal employment status of household members. For the first time this study provides a detailed distributional …

on household income, consumption and wealth. Its aim is to extend the existing international frameworks for measuring … household income and consumption at the micro level to include wealth, and describes income, consumption and wealth as three … data sets at the household level that are suitable for integrated analysis, and for facilitating comparisons between …

This publication presents an internationally agreed set of guidelines for producing micro statistics on household … methods for measuring particular forms of wealth, best practice in using household surveys or other sources to compile wealth …