MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. The poverty rate in Russia will decline from 12.1% in 2020 to 11.4% in 2021, the World Bank (WB) says in its report on the Russian economy. According to the report ...

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Real disposable income of the population decreased by 1.7% of GDP in 2017, despite the fact that Russia saw economic growth, Kudrin stated MOSCOW, September 27. /TASS/. The level of poverty in ...

At the same time, she recalled experiences from many trips she took across Russia, where the ubiquitous poverty and backwardness particularly struck her. The war in Ukraine has been going on for ...

World Bank knowledge and technical assistance have focused on the social and economic development of Russia and on addressing the global challenges of fighting poverty, debt relief for the poorest ...

In 2023, the number of people who had incomes at the subsistence level was about 9% of the total population, which is 7 times ...

If the bill is adopted in its current form, the phrase ‘How can you give birth when there is such poverty in Russia?’ will be punishable.” When the bill passed its first reading in ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed up prices ... "We've calculated that there will be a further 1.3 million people pushed into poverty, and half a million of those are children." ...

The energy price crisis caused the sharpest increase in UK absolute poverty in 30 years, new figures show. Steep prices rises, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, meant hundreds of thousands ...

Persistently high inflation in the country since 2022 has pushed an additional 79 lakh people into poverty, bringing the total number of people living below the poverty line to 3.82 crore.