Issue № 1, 2017, article № 11, pages 79-85

Section: Social problems of rural territories

Language: Russian

Original language title: ТЕНДЕНЦИИ ИЗМЕНЕНИЯ УСЛОВИЙ ЖИЗНИ СЕЛЬСКОГО НАСЕЛЕНИЯ АМУРСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

Keywords: RURAL PEOPLE, RURAL AREAS, LIVING CONDITIONS, PERSONAL INCOME, CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES, AMUR REGION

Abstract: The changes in the factors determining the living conditions of rural people in the Amur region are studied. The income structure, real personal income indexes, wages and pensions of rural people, the amount and structure of household members consumption expenditures, caloric and nutrition value of food consumed, average per capita food consumption are analyzed. The characteristic of changes in the education and health system development is presented. The increase of income level and quality of living differentiation determines the increasing social tensions, a lumpenization of considerable part of villagers and multiplication of rural people social exclusion. The distorted structure of rural families leads to deformation of human capital reproduction associated with the reduction in the volume of resources invested and multiplied by the impact of such factors as the decrease of education quality, health and life quality deterioration, and reduction of economic and social needs and impoverishment of their structure. Existing regional programs for development of rural areas and agriculture have to some extent stabilized the situation in the agricultural sector of the Amur region, but the task of providing sustainable development requires research and new approaches to its solution. Having evaluated the complex of conditions that affect the reproduction of the rural population in the Amur region the authors draw conclusions about the rural areas development opportunities.

Authors: Tikhonov Evgenii Ivanovich, Reimer Valerii Viktorovich