REDUCE EXPENSES IN ORDER TO REDUCE POVERTY
Support A1+!Poverty has been reduced in Armenia: only one third of the population is below the poverty threshold. This is the conclusion of sociologist Aharon Adibekyan drawn as a result of investigations. According to him, it is conditioned by two factors, «More jobs are created, and those who work abroad, send money to Armenia».
The working group of the Poverty reduction strategic plan also claim that poverty has been reduced. According to them, the stimuli to this are the economic growth and the state policy of expenses which is socially oriented.
Sociologist Aharon Adibekyan states that the market service field equals that of industry and agriculture together. «There one interesting thing: two people of the living standards differ as one of them considers himself rich, and the other considers himself poor. That is, their requirements are different». Hence, Mr. Adibekyan concludes that the reduction of poverty is not only an economic or social issue, but also a psychological one, «People have to revise their values, ways of living and level of demands».
According to Mr. Adibekyan, the schools mush work in order to solve the problem. «The schools must teach what luxury is and what wastefulness is».
Today in Hotel «Congress» the Poverty reduction strategic plan organized a discussion titled «Efficient enhancing of public governing». «If we return to the work carried out during the past 5 years, where the country introduced structural changes, the task of the second phase is to enhance them, particularly the quality and accessibility of state services», said secretary of the reforms committee Armen Khudaverdyan.
