into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The analysis suggests that the equivalence scale elasticity is sensitive to …

growth of 1.5 percent would bring down the poverty rate from 13.2 percent to only 10.7 percent by 2024. And even if Russia …We identify the conditions in terms of economic growth and public transfers required to "...reduce poverty in the … Russian Federation by one half by 2024" as stated in President Putin's Decree of May 17th, 2018. The current poverty rate is …

the Eurasian Union (excluding Russia) posted strong growth in 2018, Russia'smain trading partners - the Euro area and …

goals for socio-economic development and poverty alleviation in Russia. The Decree put human development and poverty …This report updates the assessment of the performance of the social protection (SP) system in Russia, using the 2014 … the Russian Federation (Rosstat), the largest household annual monitoring survey in Russia, and the main source of …

This book examines the effects of trade on growth and poverty. It addresses the following questions:1) Which are the … openness on growth? ; and 3) What are the effects of trade openness on poverty and income distribution? …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to … are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …

This paper applies an innovative method to estimate poverty in India in the absence of recent expenditure data. The … goods expenditure conducted in 2014-15. At the USD 1.90 per day international poverty line, the preferred model predicts a … 2014-15 head-count poverty rate of 10 percent in urban areas and 16.4 percent in rural areas, implying a poverty rate of 14 …