The regional authorities proposed changing the methodology of poverty counting
The regional authorities prepared reports on the preliminary results of the first stage of the project to reduce the poverty level. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to reports from Tatarstan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Primorsky Territory, Liplian, Ivanovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Novgorod and Tomsk regions. In particular, the poverty level is proposed to reduce by changes in need criteria. For example, officials of the Ivanovo region identified the category of the “lazy poor”.