Poverty and population of Russia: a retrospective viewpoint of the problem
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Tkachenko A.A. Poverty and population of Russia: a retrospective viewpoint of the problem. Population. 2019. Vol. 22. No. 4. P. 36-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19181/1561-7785-2019-00037 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article examines the evolution of poverty research, starting from a monograph published 25 years ago by ISESP RAS; the article gives a brief overview of the main achievements of this 1994 publication, which remains relevant even a quarter of century later. The main domestic works preceding this publication are also considered. The purpose of the article is to evaluate the research approaches put forward in this work and the main conclusions, as well as to identify their relationship and conformity with modern achievements of scientific thought of Russian and foreign researchers. The problem of poverty and implementation of anti-poverty policies remains an extensive field of scientific discussion that affects the practice of government decisions, which are very sensitive to the population. The main documents of international organizations aimed at eradicating extreme poverty and strengthening the world poverty reduction policy are briefly reviewed. The article notes the importance of the monitoring living conditions of Russian families in the form of a Comprehensive Survey conducted by Rosstat. According to the author, continuation of this monitoring of families will allow a more balanced approach to measures of financial assistance to families with children and take adequate social protection measures that will help these families to avoid transition to poverty. On the basis of analysis of publications on materials from the Taganrog studies, the author expresses the opinion that it is incorrect to apply the term "maloobespechenny" (not sufficiently provided for) to income-poor families as this concept should include the property status of the poor. The author suggests that the institute that prepared the 1994 edition can successfully combine social, economic, demographic and sociological approaches for an integrated study of the phenomenon of poverty.
Keywords:
extreme poverty, deprivation, population incomes, subsistence minimum, child allowance, low-income families
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Yarygina T. Bednost' v bogatoj Rossii [Poverty in rich Russia]. Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennosf [Social Sciences and Modem World]. 1994. No. 2. P. 25-35. (in Russ.)
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Zubova L., Kovaleva N., Khakhulina L. Bednost' v SSSR: tochka zreniya naseleniya [Poverty in the USSR: the point of view of the population]. Voprosy Ekonomiki. [Economic Issues] 1991. No. 6. P. 60-67. (in Russ.)
Luchkina L.S. О bednosti i opredelenii prozhitochnogo minimuma [On poverty and definition of subsistence minimum]. Mirovaya ekonomika i mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya [World Economy and International Relations]. 1993. No. 2. P. 134-142. (in Russ.)
Rimashevskaya N.M. Social'naya stratifikaciya i problemy bednosti [Social stratification and poverty issues]. Chelovek i trud. [Man and Loboor].1994. No. 10. P. 55-58. (in Russ.)
Chernina N.V. Bednost' как social'nyj fenomen rossijskogo obshchestva [Poverty as a social phenomenon of Russian society]. Sociologicheskie issledovaniya. [Sociological Studies]. 1994. No. 3. P. 54-61. (in Russ.)
Kuznetsova E.V. Social'noe rassloenie i bednost' v Rossii [Social stratification and poverty in Russia]. Obshchestvo i ekonomika [Society and Economics] 1995. No. 9. P. 26-29. (in Russ.)
PoduzovA.A. Izmerenie bednosti. Zarubezhnyj opyt [Poverty measurement. Foreign experience]. Problemy prognozirovaniya. [Studies on Russian Economic Development]. 1996. No. 4. P. 101-108, No 5. P. 100-114. (in Russ.)
McAuley A. Soviet Anti-Poverty Policy 1955-1975. Madison. University of Wisconsin. Institute for Research on Poverty. 1977.41 p.
McAuley A. Economic Welfare in the Soviet Union: Poverty, Living Standards, and Inequality. Madison. University of Wisconsin Press. 1979. 389 p.
McAuley A., Mozhina M.A. and Ovcharova L. Poverty: Alternative Approaches to Definition and Measures. Moscow. Carnegie Moscow Center. 1998.
Hagenaars A.J.M., Praag B.M.S. A Synthesis of poverty line definitions. Review of Income and Wealth. 1985. Vol. 31. Iss. 2. P. 139-154. Available at: https://doi.Org/10.llll/j.1475-4991.1985.tb00504.x
Sarkisyan G. S., Kuznetsova N. P. Potrebnosti i dohod sem'i [Family Needs and Income]. Moscow. Ekonomika. [Economics] 1967.178 p. (in Russ.)
Matematicheskie metody v ekonomike truda [Mathematical methods in labor economics]. Eds. E.I. Kapustin, N.M. Rimashevskaya. Moscow. N11 truda. [Institute of Labor]. 1966.199 p. (in Russ.)
Kapustin E. I., Kuznetsova N. P. Regional'nye osobennosti povysheniya urovnya zhizni naseleniya [Regional features of improving the living standards of population]. Ekonomicheskie nauki [Economic Sciences]. 1972. No. 1. P. 50-60. (in Russ.)
Dohody trudyashchihsya i social'nye problemy urovnya zhizni naseleniya v SSSR [Income of Workers and Social Problems of Living Standards in the USSR]. Ed. G.S. Sarkisyan. Moscow. 1973.188 p. (in Russ.)
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World Development Report 1990. Poverty (World Development Indicators). New York. Oxford University Press. 276 p. ISBN0-19-520850-1
Bednost': al'ternativnye podhody к opredeleniyu i izmereniyu [Poverty: Alternative Approaches to Identification and Measurement]. Moscow. Carnegie Moscow Center. 1998.282 p. (in Russ.)
Toksanbaeva M.S. Issledovanie bednosti metodom lishenij: pervyj rossijskij opyt [Study of poverty by deprivation method: the first Russian experience], Ekonomicheskaya nauka sovremennoj Rossii [Economics of Contemporary Russia]. 1999. No 1(5). P. 22-28. (in Russ.)
Korchagina I.I., Prokofieva L. M., Ter-Akopov S.A. Material'nye deprivacii v otsenkah bednosti [Material deprivations in poverty estimations]. Narodonaselenie [Population]. 2019. No. 2. P. 51-63. DOI: 10.24411/1561-7785-2019-00015. (in Russ.)
Rimashevskaya N.M., Migranova L.A. Social'no-ekonomicheskoe neravenstvo v Rossii [Socio-economic inequality in Russia]. Narodonaselenie [Population]. 2016. No. 3. P. 17-33. (in Russ.)
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Vass Gal Adam D. Generational Poverty. An Economic Look at the Culture of the Poor. Wilmington, Delaware. US Vernon Press. 2015.160 p. ISBN-10:1622730186.
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Atkinson A.B. Measuring Poverty around the World. Princeton University Press. 2019. 464 p. ISBN-10: 0691191220
Alexandrova O.A., Yarasheva A.V. Usilenie selektivnosti social'noj politiki i perspektivy snizheniya bednosti [Strengthening the selectivity of social policy and poverty reduction prospects]. Narodonaselenie [Population]. 2018. Vol. 21. No. 1. P. 4-21. DOI: 10.26653/1561-7785-2018-21-1-01 (in Russ.)
Bednost' i bednye v sovremennoj Rossii [Poverty and the Poor in Contemporary Russia]. Eds. M. K. Gorshkov, N.E. Tihonova. Moscow. Izdatel'stvo «Ves' mir» [The Whole World Publishers]. 2014.304 p. (in Russ.)
Grishanov V. I. Kachestvo zhizni naseleniya srednego rossijskogo goroda: vchera i segodnya (polveka «Taganrogskih issledovanij») [Quality of life of the medium Russian city: yesterday and today (Half a century of the Taganrog studies)]. Byulleten' nauki i praktiki [Bulletin of Science and Practice]. 2017. No. 5(18). P. 187-196. (in Russ.)
Tkachenko A.A. Bednost' как sotsial'nyi fenomen [Poverty as a social phenomenon]. Vlast [Power]. 1999. No. 9. P. 35-43. (in Russ.)
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Tkachenko, A. A. (2019). Poverty and population of Russia: a retrospective viewpoint of the problem. Population, 22(4), 36-50. https://doi.org/10.19181/1561-7785-2019-00037
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