indices, using existing census data. This paper develops a set of poverty maps for Azerbaijan that can be used by different …Poverty maps - that is, graphic representations of spatially disaggregated estimates of welfare-are being increasingly … used to geographically target scarce resources. But the development of detailed poverty maps in many low resource settings …

This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 …-in-difference methods. The findings show that increases in migration to Gulf-Malaysia explain 40 percent of the decline in poverty between …

While the Azerbaijan household income and expenditure survey (HIES) data satisfy most empirical regularities expected … extremely low even with the standard of countries generally considered as most equal in the world. Azerbaijan, a transitional … paper is to investigate why inequality measures are unusually low in the Azerbaijan household survey data. The author …

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan … to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns to schooling are 6 percent for men and 8 percent for women, even …

progress made in reducing poverty over the past decade, there appears to be a significant amount of churning around the poverty … line. Moreover, in Georgia and Armenia, roughly one in eight individuals lived in a state of chronic poverty in 2015, and … in the case of Georgia, chronic poverty is not an exclusive phenomenon for rural areas. In addition, although social …

Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses …