This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …

targeting, the difficulty in identifying the poor promotes a universal allocation of benefits. To address this question, this … study examines the targeting performance of, and access to, a social welfare scheme for an increasingly vulnerable group … targeting approach to a random allocation, I show that the benefits of targeting are limited. The reforms aimed at increasing …

that keep them from reducing poverty and inequality. To perform this assessment, we analyze three dimensions of size … (number of beneficiaries, size of transfer per beneficiary, and size of total budget) and three dimensions of targeting … (coverage, leakage, and quality of demographic targeting). We identify 67 programs, which fall into three broad categories …