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 …

classes, i.e. Scheduled Castes, in India. We have looked at the impact of types of government on the reduction of the gap …-party majoritarian government is better at reducing the gap in terms of poverty and school drop-out rates, improves the employment …