the Government intends by the end of 2021 to bring the Russian economy sustained GDP growth of at least 2.5% per year. The goal of the National plan of action for the recovery of employment and income, economic growth and long-term structural changes in the economy.
Among other targets to this term — “sustainable” growth in real incomes (without specific figures), the return of unemployment to the level below 5%, increase the investment in fixed capital not less than 4.5% per year and a number of others, according to RBC daily, familiar with a draft of the plan.
He suggests three stages of implementation (June 2020-December 2021) — the stage adaptation stage recovery stage of active growth.
the Draft plan contains as already announced, and a number of new measures to support the economy and population. In particular, it is proposed to implement throughout the country from 1 January 2021 a new procedure of “direct payments” for sick leave and paid out under social insurance allowances to citizens with children, which will require an additional nearly 52 billion rubles.
in addition, the government decided to establish since October, 2020, the minimum hourly rate in attracting workers in part-time work for up to three months “to fight against the shadow wage and the protection of the interests of employers and their employees working part-time.”
the Market will be supported as reducing the mortgage rate below 8% and 33 billion roubles for the completion of protracted. The tourism industry can expect to reduce the VAT rate to 7%.
however, according to the national plan, in restoring the individual, as well as small and medium businesses, the objective will be considered met when the number of people employed in the sector will return to pre-crisis level of the first quarter of 2020 (10 March, according to the register of SMEs in the sector accounted for 15.3 million people), and the rate of growth of SMEs will higher than the rate of growth of the economy as a whole.
we will Remind, yesterday the Chairman of the government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin said that a national plan for the recovery of the Russian economy is ready. As pointed out by the Prime Minister, the main goal of national plan — “access to a sustainable path of economic growth, increasing real incomes on the basis of use of modern technologies, digitalisation and new opportunities in the labour market, education, fast and high-quality housing.”
“the plan will not only reverse the situation created by the spread of the new coronavirus infection, but also to initiate long-term structural changes in the economy and its further strengthening,” — said Mishustin.
the Prime Minister assured that “the document was prepared taking into account the proposals of the regions and representatives of the business community.”
“the Plan consists of 9 sections and contains over 500 events in various areas. It is necessary to perform until the end of next year”, — said the head of the government, which is to discuss the draft of national plan with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
let’s Add that the Russian economy in February—March 2020 was under the powerful impact of two negative factors — the rapid spread of the pandemic coronavirus infection COVID-19 and its deleterious effect on the global economy and collapse in oil prices. Against this background, the rouble significantly depreciated against the dollar and the Euro. Reacting to the situation, the government and the Bank of Russia adopted several packages of measures to support the economy and citizens.
may 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the end of may 12, a single period of days off, entered March 30, in the fight against COVID-19. He also announced the beginning of implementation the third package of anti-crisis measures, under which the state, in particular, will increase targeted support for families with children, small businesses, individual entrepreneurs and self-employed. In addition, Putin instructed the government to prepare a national plan for long-term development of the economy, the recovery in employment and incomes.
on 27 may, the Minister of economic development (MED) of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov said that the total cost of anti-crisis measures to support the Russian economy, aimed at combating the impact of the pandemic coronavirus has reached 3.3 trillion rubles.
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