the poverty Reduction in Russia to double by 2024 is a major national goal. About this on air of the First channel said the Vice-Premier of the Russian Federation Tatyana Golikova.
“Now this is our main goal — reducing poverty by half by 2024” — quoted by RIA “Novosti” Deputy Chairman of the government.
Recall, back in January of this year, she noted that below the poverty line live in Russia more than 18 million people, most of them (70-80%) are families with children.
Meanwhile, from the crisis caused by the pandemic coronavirus infection COVID-19, most of all can suffer it is the poor people. This was in mid-may, warned the head of “RUSNANO” Anatoly Chubais. “Millions of people will face with serious decline in living standards. Especially painful it will be for the most vulnerable, the poorest. This is exactly the category (the population) who lives with no savings, no stocks,” he said.
“As someone rightly said, do not remember who: “the Rich become slightly less rich, the middle class will be a little smaller, but the poor will become very poor.” And that’s the hardest part of the whole story. Therefore, for the world as a whole the impact will be very heavy and very serious political implications for sure — God forbid that without the upheavals of revolutionary character,” he added.
According to him, one of the heaviest blows is an attack on the standard of living in the world as a whole and unemployment.
According to the latest data of Rosstat, real wages (adjusted for inflation) in Russia in April 2020 fell 2% in annual terms, after rising by 5.9% in March. “Average monthly accrued wages of employees of organizations in April 2020 made 49306 rubles and in comparison with the corresponding period of the previous year increased by 1.0% (in January—April 2020 — 6.7%), “—said on Friday Rosstat.
Real wages in April 2020 compared to March 2020 fell 4.3%. In January—April real wages compared to the same period last year increased by 4%.
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 of 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.
on 2 June Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin presented to the President a national plan for the recovery of the Russian economy in 2020-2021 years, noting in particular that the cost of the plan will be about 5 trillion rubles.
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