Is there enough money for something? ": Economists talk about a new group of Russians - the "pre-poor".
"The focus remains on the so-called pre-poverty level," she continues. The study separately describes what is meant by this term. For such people, the average per capita income is only slightly above the official poverty line. Many of them are employed, most of the households are families with children, but the earnings are only enough to satisfy basic needs and not enough to create savings.
The income is only slightly above the official poverty line.
There is enough money to cover basic needs. Among them are food, housing and community services, minimal clothing and medicine. But there are no funds left to create savings.
There is often a high debt burden: people take loans to close the gap between income and expenses, and then part of their modest earnings goes to pay interest."