this may be related to low payment rates and or the zakat system covering only a part of the poor population in azerbaijan targeted social assistance was introduced in which the number of families receiving assistance tripling over the period to almost but with the slump in oil prices and oil revenue the number of families receiving support fell to just below in china the number of social assistance recipients in amount to about million million in urban areas and million in rural areas and payment schedules seem to affect financial incentives to work for recipients as in so many oecd countries oecd forthcoming