Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit die Wirtschaftsreform in Rußland zu einer wachsenden Polarisierung der Bevölkerung hinsichtlich der Einkommensverteilung geführt hat. Die Beantwortung dieser Frage wird durch die mangelnde Reliabilität und Aussagekraft der vorhandenen Statistik erschwert....

This paper presents and discusses child relative income poverty statistics for 35 economically advanced countries, representing all the members of the European Union, Australia, Canada, Iceland, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States. As most of the data refer to the year 2008,...

The analysis of targeting of cash benefits is typically silent on whether any success is due to encouraging claims from the poor or to the decisions of administrators on the claims they receive. By contrast, the paper models the probabilities of households' knowledge of a new social assistance...

Since 2006, Mali has experienced the full effects of the global food crisis, with price increases of up to 67%. This study presents simulations of the impacts of this crisis and a number of policy responses with respect to the welfare of children. The impacts are analyzed in terms of monetary...