Household real disposable income saw no increase within the fi rst eight months in 2014 relative to the corresponding period last year, whereas in the period between January 2013 and August 2013 it increased more than 4% relative to the corresponding period in 2012. The level of inequality...

In January 2015, the real disposable money income of the population shrank by 0.8% on January 2014. The RF Government launched its ‘Plan of Priority Measures Designed to Ensure Sustainable Development of the Economy and Social Stability in 2015’, which addresses the sphere of employment and...

Over the first 9 months of 2013, the real disposable money income of the population rose by 3.6% on the corresponding period of 2012. The highest rate of wage growth was observed in the budget-funded sector, as a result of the implementation of the RF President’s Edicts of 7 May 2012. The...

The slowdown of the population’s income growth rate that had started in the first half year of 2013 continued through January 2014. Due to the implementation of measures designed to raise the salary level in the budget-funded sphere in accordance with the President of the Russian...

In 2012, households’ real disposable income rose by 4.2% which situation points to the fact that the trend of zero growth in households’ income in 2011 was overcome. In January 2013, a decrease in households’ income was justified by a seasonal factor, so, one may expect stable growth in...

The real disposable money income of the population over the first 7 months of 2013 rose by 4.3% on the corresponding period of 2012, which happened due to an increase in wages and a somewhat less pronounced increase in pensions. The year 2013 saw a persisting though negligible upward trend in...

In the period January–April 2014, the RF population’s real disposable income amounted to 98.8% vis-a-vis the same period of 2013. Due to the implementation of measures designed to raise the salary level in the budgetfunded sphere in accordance with the President of the Russian Federation’s...

Over the first 4 months of 2013, the population’s real disposable income over the first 4 months of 2013 rose by 5.9% on the corresponding period of 2012, which happened due to an increase in the size of both wages and pensions. The inequality indices on Q1 2013 remained practically the same...

The household real disposable money income declined in November 2014 compared to that in the previous month and November 2013. The rise in wages of public sector employees in January–October 2014 was frozen. The level of inequality remained unchanged within the nine months of 2014 compared to...

In April 2014, Russia's banking sector witnessed a continuation of the trends observed over the several previous months: the share of state-owned banks continued to increase in all major segments of the banking services market; the growth rate of retail lending remained on the decline, while the...