Content №2 от 2011

Population's competence to withstand negative impacts of the crisis: between today and tomorrow

The paper compares the data of the representative opinion polls carried out in the USA, the EU and Russia concerning the issues of how the world crisis of 2008-2009 influenced the life of individuals and their families. We can state that labour problems were experienced by the people from all the said countries. In Russia, in comparison with the USA, it is the people's everyday consumption that the crisis affected substantially since most of the Russian households had had practically no assets or market involvement. Our main conclusion is that the systemic weaknesses of the economy but not the crisis entail such problems

Bogomolova T. Yu. bogtan@rambler.ru

Keywords: economic crisis social impact of the crisis economic behaviour of the population social attitudes social consequences of the crisis