Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235522 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 880
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
Hardly any recent study exists that broadly reviews poverty trends over time for Russia. Analyzing the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Surveys between 1994 and 2019, we offer an updated review of poverty trends and dynamics for the country over the past quarter of century. We find that poverty has been steadily decreasing, with most of the poor having a transient rather than a chronic nature. The bottom 20 percent of the income distribution averages an annual growth rate of 5 percent, which compares favorably with that of 3.3 percent for the whole population. Income growth, particularly the shares that are attributed to labor incomes and public transfers, have important roles in reducing poverty. Our findings are relevant to poverty and social protection policies.
Subjects: 
poverty
poverty dynamics
income growth
income mobility
RLMS
Russia
JEL: 
C15
D31
I31
O10
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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