Living Standards and Income Inequality in Selected Regions: Development of Targeted Social Assistance Programs
Publication date
Monday, 04.06.2001
Authors
I. Kolosnitsyn, Е. Kitova, А. Surinov, Т. Chijelikova, S. Shashnov, Ken Battle, Sherri Torjman
Series
CEPRA
According to the Russian Constitution, implementation of the social policy (including social protection and social assistance to the population) is the concurrent responsibility of federal and regional (subnational authorities). One of the key current issues of social reform is the existence of a considerable amount of social obligations established by the effective federal legislation, which are not funded by the federal budget. In other words, the numerous legal acts of the federal level (laws or regulations introduced by federal agencies) assigning to the subnational authorities additional expenditure powers that are not back-upped (or are partly back-upped) with financing sources, are still in effect.
Contents
1. Funding of federal mandates regulating the expenditure on the fulfillment of social obligations of the government at the regional level
2. Methodological Aspects of Social Assistance Targeting (separate note)
3. Analysis of Household Income and Cosumption Differentiation
4. The Post-Welfare State in Canada: Income-Testing and Inclusion
5. Lessons for the Russian Federation from the Reform of Income Security Programs in Canada
8. Post-Welfare State: Canadian Expirience of Designing Social Policies
Living Standards and Income Inequality in Selected Regions: Development of Targeted Social Assistance Programs, Moscow
2001.
ISBN 5-93255-036-8
The research and the publication were undertaken in the framework of CEPRA (Consortium for Economic Policy, Research and Advice) project funded by the Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA).
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