This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of … poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during data collection for a large household … panel (RUSSET). We estimate poverty using a subjective approach, where the level of the poverty line is derived using the …

This paper develops a seven-region comparative static computable general equilibrium model of Russia to assess the … impact of accession to the World Trade Organization on these seven regions (the federal okrugs) of Russia. In order to assess … poverty and distributional impacts, the model includes ten households in each of the seven federal okrugs, where household …

This paper presents the first critical review of literature on poverty published in Russia between 1992 and 2006. Using … poverty published in Russia in 1992-2006 follow the universally-recognized principles of the scientific method. The utility of … quality of poverty research in Russia …

households gaining. They find that global free trade would result in a weighted average gain to households in Russia of 0 … of 0.2 percent of consumption). Russia, as a net food importer, loses from subsidy elimination, and the gains to Russia … from tariff cuts in other countries are too small to offset these losses. The results strongly support the view that Russia …

"The authors use data from a large nationally representative survey in Russia to analyze the distributional and welfare … implications of draft avoidance as a common response to Russia's highly unpopular conscription system. They develop a simple …

their trade and poverty analysis. In the medium term, the authors find that virtually all households gain from Russian WTO … poverty …