Recently have been published several studies of Western consulting companies, which revealed unpleasant facts about the Russian economy. We are talking about the distribution of income in our country among working people, as well as ownership structure.
The Russian economy was recognized as the “most unfair” in the world. This is evidenced by the calculations carried out one of the largest and most respected consulting companies in the world – Capgemini, which Central office is located in Paris. Study World Wealth Report showed that 62% of all the wealth of the Russian Federation is concentrated in the hands of millionaires, while 26% of billionaires.
Experts said that when millionaires control more than half of the wealth in the country, designated for the middle class it remains.
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Russia in the ranking of economic inequality followed by India (54% of the assets in the hands of the millionaires), the UK (35%), USA (32%), Australia (28%), Japan (22%).
Note that the ranking was only the world’s largest economy, member of the “TOP 10”.
According to the publication, who published this study, “the most fair” can be called Japan’s economy, whose GDP in the third world, and the number of millionaires is minimal. The U.S. economy called “amazing equal,” as there is millionaires owned only a third of all the wealth of the country.
Another aspect of inequality that prevails in the Russian economy, said analysts of the Chicago Agency Spencer Stuart. They calculated that the top managers of Russian corporations receive significantly greater compensation than their American counterparts. We are talking only about “traders”. About fees in government corporations experts to obtain information failed.
According to research from Spencer Stuart, the maximum annual remuneration of Russian CEOs (without long-term payments) is 606 million rubles, and the minimum was 36 million. The Treasurer it ranges from 26.4 million to 134 million, from HR Directors – from 12.8 to 40 million.
CEO of companies of the British list of FTSE-250 that have similar capitalization earned in the past year 41% fewer Russians, and the us – 51%.
This would only be glad if the same proportion is observed to the average wage. But no…
The average salary in the US is currently 3263 dollar, and in the UK – 3065 dollars. 36200 Russian rubles at today’s exchange rate is about 550 USD.
It should be clarified that we are talking about individuals ‘ income before income tax, whose rate in each country is different.
However, we can state the shocking inequality. The Russian top management gets a half times more than in the West, despite the fact that the average salary in Russia in 5 – 6 times less than in USA and UK. And there can be no debate about “the balance of prices and tariffs for utilities”. After all, we are talking about the level of income inequality.
It is particularly interesting that we are talking about a country that has long been considered a symbol of global egalitarianism, and well-known events which, though very peculiar, contributed about a hundred years ago to reduce the level of income inequality around the world.
Now Russia is in a sense turned into a real “beacon of world liberalism”… And Sweden and Finland on its background – Terry “Sovdep”.
