standard income-based measures. The results point to the need for caution in analyzing and interpreting self-assessed health …Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this …

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 …

implications for household income. Their results indicate that the burden of conscription falls disproportionately on the poor … of personal income taxes. …

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. …