A doubling of living standards
	The World Bank estimates the Gross National Income per capita at $5,780 in 2006 with a GNI of $823 billion
	Real wages have grown at double that rate
	Russia’s real income per capita rose from $5,964 in 1998 to $9,650 in 2005
	The percentage of the population living in poverty fell from 38% in 1998 to 9.5% in 2004
	The share of family budgets spent on food fell from 73% in 1992 to 54% in 2004

 

 

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