Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and the EU member states use one or several 'official' poverty indicators on which success of poverty reduction policy is regularly monitored. Whereas the US poverty indicator is...

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are more often used as a benchmark to develop new policies as well as to evaluate the performance of existing programs. Europe has the tradition and the practice to use relative...

Since the start of the transition, the Russian Federation has experienced a number of regulatory and administrative reforms with respect to the provision child benefits. Besides changes in financing from local to federal budget, the introduction of means testing of previously universal child...