[lbo-talk] Russia: Population's real income up in first half of 2003

[Chris Doss]

>Russia: Population's real income up in first half of 2003 Interfax
>  Moscow, 18 July: Real income in Russia (adjusted to inflation) increased
>by
>14.6 per cent in the first half of 2003 against the same period of 2002,
>the Russian State Statistics Committee reported on Friday [18 July].
>
>In June 2003, real income increased by 13 per cent from June 2002 and by
>3.2 per cent from [presumably May 2002] to May 2003.
>
>Russia's nominal per capita income in June 2003 reached R4,974 a month,
>which is 28.6 per cent more than it was in June 2002 and 4.8 per cent more
>than in May 2003. In the first six months of 2003, nominal income in
>Russia
>(without adjustments for inflation) exceeded the level of January-June
>2002
>by 31 per cent.

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