Socio-economic differentiation of the population in the Russian Federation: the poverty, the regional aspect

The article deals with the socio-economic differentiation of the population, in particular one of its phenomena of poverty, in terms of the institutional approach. Revealed the existence of endogenous institutional base of the socio-economic differentiation. The causes of inter-regional differentiation of the population in the Russian Federation, in particular the analysis of the state of socio-economic differentiation in the Volgograd region. Based on the study data made conclusions about the causes of socio-economic disparities and ways to overcome them.