The Loss of Social Welfare From Interregional Inequality in Russian Production

Abstract

This paper looks at focused on measurement of interregional inequality in Russian production from 1998 to 2011. Using data from Russian Federation Federal State Statistics Service and statistical applying is based on Atkinson inter - regional inequality index. It is shown that the inter - regional production inequality has disequilibrium during long term period after socialist age in Russia Federation. The indices have found that there are unequal distribution of production and serious loss of social welfare for the regional people from production. Levels of social welfare rate from production were 78.15 % in 1998 and 72.81 % in 2011. The loss of social welfare were the fall less 20s %.