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The modern world is characterized by significant economic and environmental inequality. Income inequality of population and the predominance of rich people in the consumption over others cause certain ecological and economic problems with negative impact to sustainable development. One of the main global problems according to Sustainable Development Goals is poverty. And the most challenging kind of poverty from an economic and ecological point of view is chronic poverty. It is reproduced systematically in several...

Poverty is inherent in all countries of the world and is the result of various factors. The world's poor are especially vulnerable to the environmental challenges. Transition to "green" economy can contribute to the eradication of poverty. In order to eradicate poverty one should know its real size. In this research authors give more precise estimation of the well-being of Russian households based on the calculation of equivalent income. For this purpose data from the Russian Monitoring of the Economic Situation a...