“The stimulation of consumer demand this year will be more, we wanted to expect higher rates of growth in real spending and poverty reduction, but in the face of the challenges that I spoke about at the beginning, most likely there will not be a major change for the better,” said he.
According to Kudrin, on the contrary, "we are faced with the challenges of at least poverty reduction."
“Unfortunately, there may even be an increase,” Kudrin emphasized.
Kudrin noted earlier that the economic growth rate of Russia will be closer to zero in 2020, and accordingly, “the values of all other indicators in terms of growth in real incomes of the population” will be lower.