Directions of reducing the poverty level of rural population in the Saratov region

Issue № 7, 2022, article № 4, pages 29-35

Language: Russian

Original language title: НАПРАВЛЕНИЯ СНИЖЕНИЯ УРОВНЯ БЕДНОСТИ СЕЛЬСКОГО НАСЕЛЕНИЯ В САРАТОВСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

Keywords: RURAL POPULATION, RURAL AREAS, POVERTY, POVERTY INDEX, ABSOLUTE POVERTY, RELATIVE POVERTY, THE WORKING POOR, SOCIAL CONTRACT

Abstract: The system of scientific views on the problem of poverty of the rural population is considered. The toolkit of social contracts for the poor rural population has been adapted, containing two areas: reducing administrative barriers for participants in contractual relations and a set of measures to improve the conditions for providing assistance, including reforming the conditions for supporting the activities of personal subsidiary farms, focused on increasing real incomes and increasing agricultural production; clarified the concept of "working poor" in relation to potential participants in contractual relations. Directions for reducing rural poverty are recommended by improving the conditions for supporting a social contract, which is a form of agreement between the state and a citizen (family), in which social protection agencies provide assistance to citizens with incomes below the subsistence level. It is concluded that the system of social contracts can effectively increase the real incomes of the population both through direct satisfaction of the vital needs of the population, and through its active involvement in the labor market (due to the acquisition of new specialties and employment), as well as the development of own production within the framework of personal subsidiary farms (as a self-employed citizen). Modern multimedia technologies will make it possible to carry out effective remote support of contracts: to carry out explanatory and consulting work, to accept reporting documents, and so on.

Authors: Glukhov Sergei Germanovich