This paper presents the first critical review of literature on poverty published in Russia between 1992 and 2006. Using … a dataset of about 250 publications in Russian scientific journals, the authors assess whether the poverty research in … Russian government as it maps out its anti-poverty policies. The findings indicate that only a small proportion of papers on …

poverty in Nepal of local and international migration for work. They apply an instrumental variable approach to deal with … observed and counterfactual household expenditure distribution. The results indicate that one-fifth of the poverty reduction in … home. The authors also show that while the increase in work migration abroad was the leading cause of this poverty …

the priority given to absolute poverty in poor countries. The pattern of externalities also suggests that there will be … too much poverty and inequality in this economy, even judged solely from the point of view of aggregate efficiency. …