Identifying Poverty Triggers In Russian Regions
Journal: The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Year: 2021

The authors propose the approach for identification of the differences between Russian regions in the poverty profile by evaluating household well-being and identifying poverty's primary triggers. The stratification of the households may outline new sub-groups of low-income people. These sub-groups do not receive state support because they are not considered poor according to the official poverty line. We made the households' ranking on three stratification scales according to the equivalent inc