This paper provides a detailed discussion of all the programs comprising the Ukrainian pension system. It highlights the redundancies of the system as well as some of its regressive features. Efficiency...
Access of the poor to social services, is an important component of the poverty reduction strategy. Although many countries in transition have had reasonably well functioning health, and education systems...
This paper considers the validity of using the three surveys to assess trends in poverty in Ghana over the period for which they were conducted. The main issue covered in this paper is the pattern of changes...
The paper examines the institutional design, objectives, and accomplishments of social funds in eleven countries in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia, to determine what types of objectives...