Maternity Capital As A Tool For Reducing Child Poverty In Russia
Journal: The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences
Year: 2021

Extensive poverty persists against the background of a declining birth rate in the Russian Federation. This fact gives the grounds for asserting maternity capital dysfunction in the demographic sphere and its increasing role in reducing child poverty. The study aims to analyze the practice of providing maternity capital and develop measures to improve its use at the federal and regional levels. Maternity capital is an essential tool of state social policy to reduce poverty among families with ch