The great errors -- Size matters -- The cost of the cold -- Geography is not destiny -- Siberia : plenty of room for error -- Disconnected Russia -- Taking stock : how much has changed? -- Can Russia shrink? -- Russia of the mind -- Tearing down Potemkin Russia

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted...

This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...