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Exploring housing subsidies to households in Russia

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  • Ellen Hamilton

    (Europe and Central Asia Region, The World Bank, NW, Washington, DC, USA)

  • Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee

    (Europe and Central Asia Region, The World Bank, NW, Washington, DC, USA)

  • Maka Lomaia

    (Europe and Central Asia Region, The World Bank, NW, Washington, DC, USA)

Abstract

Since the early 1990s, the Russian government has undertaken a series of reforms intended to change the system from one where housing and communal services (HCSs) were nearly free to one where residents paid the costs of their housing while protecting vulnerable families. Although households payments have increased, subsidies for HCSs remain substantial (about 4 per cent of GDP) and are exceeded only by public spending for pensions. This paper uses newly available data to analyse recipients of the two major housing subsidy programs. We find that neither l'goti (which are not targeted) nor allowances (which are supposed to be targeted) have provided much protection for poorer households from tariff increases. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Ellen Hamilton & Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee & Maka Lomaia, 2008. "Exploring housing subsidies to households in Russia," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(3), pages 257-279.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jintdv:v:20:y:2008:i:3:p:257-279
    DOI: 10.1002/jid.1393
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    1. Hai-Anh H. Dang & Kseniya Abanokova & Michael M. Lokshin, 2023. "Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2019," Hacienda Pública Española / Review of Public Economics, IEF, vol. 247(4), pages 125-153, December.
    2. Dang, Hai-Anh H. & Abanokova, Kseniya & Lokshin, Michael M., 2020. "Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017," GLO Discussion Paper Series 492, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
    3. Hai-Anh H. Dang & Michael M. Lokshin & Kseniya Abanokova & Maurizio Bussolo, 2020. "Welfare Dynamics and Inequality in the Russian Federation During 1994–2015," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 32(4), pages 812-846, September.

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