The Impact of Economic, Demographic, and Infrastructural Factors on Income Inequality and Poverty in Russia

Abstract

The prime objective of the research is to examine the factors influencing both the alteration in the income distribution and the relative change in the incidence of poverty in the regions of Russia. The list of the identified factors/determinants includes economic, demographic, and infrastructural factors. An econometric model, indicating the relationship between the explanatory variables with both the income inequality index and the relative poverty proportions in Russian regions has been provided in this article. The determinants that cause variations in the income inequality and poverty of a country such as social mobility, average life expectancy of urban women, life expectancy of rural men, the number of university graduates, etc. have also been specified in this study. The analysis was executed based on a dataset of 72 Russian regions for the period between 2012-2017.

Assessment of the Impact of Income Inequality on Economic Growth in Russian Regions

“…Kostenko (2018) examines the trends and consequences of income inequality in Russia, justifying the need for fiscal and social policy changes. The influence of economic, demographic, and infrastructural factors on intraregional inequality of income distribution in the regions of the Russian Federation (the Gini coefficient) was considered by Groznykh et al (2020). The main objective of this study is to assess the nature and extent of the impact of income inequality in the Russian regions on one of the main indicators of economic growthgross regional product (GRP) per capitafor the subsequent justification of the directions of socio-economic development.…”

Keterkaitan bonus demografi dan kemiskinan di Kalimantan Utara

“…Peningkatan proporsi penduduk usia kerja dan pengurangan rasio ketergantungan anak ditemukan terkait dengan peningkatan pertumbuhan produk domestik bruto per kapita, dengan efek positif yang serupa pada pengurangan kemiskinan (Cruz & Ahmed, 2018;Khaufelo et al, 2017) ). Perubahan demografi secara keseluruhan cenderung memiliki dampak yang jauh lebih besar terhadap kemiskinan (Barros et al, 2015;Nusrat, 2015;Wietzke, 2020;Levanon et al, 2019;Adamu & Abdullahi, 2021;Groznykh et al, 2020).…”