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Research Programs / Projects

Research on Administrative Barriers to Access of Particular Social Groups to Statute-Established Types of Social Assistance and Social Benefits

Head: Cand.Sc. L. Ovcharova

Duration : September 2002 - February 2003

Support: R&D contract with the Charity Foundation "Public Assembly" [Narodnaya Assambleya] (grant from the H. Böll Foundation)

Project participants: Cand.Sc. T. Maleva, Dr.Sc. S. Shishkin, A. Pishnyak, D. Popova, E. Shatalova

Partners: H. Böll Foundation, Institute for Urban Economics, Institute of the 'Public Contract' National Project

Objective of the research was to make suggestions to NGOs and government representatives about ways to help eliminate the barriers that certain groups have in access to social benefits and compensations guaranteed in the legislation.

Main results:

1. A book has been prepared entitled Myths of Benefits and Poverty (edited by L. Ovcharova). The book contains an analysis of basic mythologems dealing with the estimation of poverty level, understanding of policy aimed at the reduction of poverty, dissemination of social benefits and mechanisms of their distribution. The book also describes most possible directions of the social benefits system reform.
   
   
2. A publication has been prepared entitled Population's Income and the Accessibility of Social Services. It analyzes the dynamics and the structure of the population's income; barriers in the access to income in the labor market; barriers in the access to the system of social benefits and payments; the accessibility of medical care for the population; the accessibility of education. For each of the issues discussed, variants have been suggested describing the possible reform of social policy aimed at a reduction of these barriers.