Cécile Lefèvre is Professor in Sociology at the University Paris-Descartes. Her research focuses on social protection systems in post-Soviet and emerging countries, and the relation between social policies and demography. She has recently published, in association with S. Hohmann, “Measures of poverty in the Caucasus and Central Asia: International approaches and specificities of Southern countries of the former Soviet Union” in Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Migration, Democratisation and Inequality in the Post-Soviet Era, Hohmann S., Mouradian C., Serrano S., Thorez J., (Eds), I.B. Tauris, 2014.