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Tentative evaluation of the impact of public transfers on the dynamics of poverty: The case of Russia
Author(s) -
Clément Matthieu
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international social security review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1468-246X
pISSN - 0020-871X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-246x.2007.00260.x
Subject(s) - poverty , promotion (chess) , chronic poverty , falling (accident) , development economics , state (computer science) , intervention (counseling) , public economics , economics , political science , economic growth , psychology , computer science , poverty reduction , environmental health , medicine , law , politics , algorithm , psychiatry
Abstract The aim of this article is to offer a dynamic impact analysis of the system of transfers in Russia, based on a comparison of indicators of well‐being measured before and after state intervention. We shall begin by assessing the impact of public transfers on different forms of poverty and demonstrate that, while the system is seeing a fall in chronic and transitional poverty, there is very little movement between categories. We shall then evaluate the capacity of the system to keep non‐poor households from falling into poverty (protection) and to help poor households escape poverty (promotion). Several studies suggest that the Russian system of transfers is well suited to protection but has proved incapable of attaining the goal of promotion. In other words, in its current form it cannot claim to be an effective tool to combat long‐term poverty.