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Azerbaijan has substantially increased pension payments since 2018, with average pensions rising faster than official inflation. Yet pensioners devote a disproportionately large share of their income to food, medicines and utilities — categories in...

Trump’s Pricing Policy in the United States and Rising Medicine and Healthcare Costs in Azerbaijan The Central Question What do the new steps to lower medicine prices in the United States reveal when compared with the price trends for medicines and...

Digitalisation has accelerated the distribution of benefits and reduced opportunities for intermediaries. Yet the eligibility rules can still exclude families that are poor in terms of their living standards but do not fit the administrative...

Who receives targeted social assistance — and why some people in need remain outside the system Azerbaijan will allocate AZN465mn in 2026 for targeted state social assistance. The programme is intended to serve as the final financial safety net for...