On poverty in the Bryansk region and measures to reduce it

Poverty is considered one of the most acute social problems of our time. In the Russian Federation, 19.9 million people or 13.5 per cent of the population are below the poverty line. The measurement of poverty is based on the establishment of a threshold below which individuals or households are considered to have insufficient means to meet the cost of living defined by the concepts of minimum needs. Currently, the poverty threshold is 11185 rubles, for the able-bodied population - 12130 rubles. The prevailing form of poverty is pronounced economic in nature, where the employed population cannot provide sufficient income to meet their basic needs. According to sociologists and experts in the field of finance, for most of the population of our country, poverty is characterized by "life" from salary to salary, "doing with inexpensive, poor-quality products, buying second hand clothes and presence of debts, and 8% of the country's population lives in extreme poverty, that is, a person does not have money even for minimal needs and there is no roof over his head" [1]. Poverty leads to the regression of the society, determines the limited access of the population to the development resources: high-paid work, high-quality education and health services, and opportunities for the successful socialization of children. The article analyzes the poverty level of the population of the Bryansk region in 2015-2019 on the basis of absolute and relative approaches, carries out a comparative analysis of the regions of the Central Federal District (CFD), assesses a set of measures to reduce poverty in the Bryansk region.