Abstract
During our research, the project conducted a review of the scientific literature and reviewed the methodology for assessing and monitoring the level of poverty. The differentiation of the methodology and measurement methodology used by the World Bank in countries with developed economies and developing economies was carried out, including the specifics of the Kazakh methodology, the methodology for assessing poverty according to international regulatory standards (World Bank, etc.). Theoretical studies of poverty, social inequality and the social structure of society in modern sociological approaches. The approaches to understanding society in the issues of poverty, wealth and inequality, as well as subjectivity, data sets and methodological approaches to understanding society, on the compliance of the current policy of poverty eradication in developed countries in comparison with developing countries are considered. Modern theoretical and methodological analysis of social stratification and social inequality, poverty in modern sociological research. The study reviewed the foreign experience of OECD countries in assessing and monitoring the level of poverty and improving living standards: the information base of the study of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was determined www.oecd.org., social policy of the OECD countries and post-Soviet countries regarding socially vulnerable groups of the population, as well as measures to improve the quality of life, criteria and assessment of the quality of life, methods of social exclusion of socially vulnerable groups of the population in the countries of the OSER, as well as tools for evaluating the effectiveness of budget programs of post-Soviet countries, economic aspects of assessing, forecasting and improving the quality of life indicators of the population, the OECD Databases of Income Distribution (IDD) and Wealth (WDD) were analyzed, the OECD collection of well-being indicators, the best policies for a better life of the OECD and the database «Regional well-being: regional income distribution and poverty» were analyzed.