Sustainable Development of the Russian Countryside as a Specific Measure of Demographic Policy
https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-4-76-91
Abstract
The strategic objective of Russia’s socio-economic development is to increase the country’s population. Various demographic policy measures are aimed at its solution. However, the trend of population decline in general and the rural population in particular has not been overcome to date, which actualizes the search for new measures to stimulate demographic growth. Given that the total fertility rate in rural areas is traditionally higher than in urban areas, the author suggests considering rural development measures as an effective demographic policy tool. Among these measures are: improving rural settlement and the formation of a network of support settlements; stimulating the development of family peasant (farming) farms; diversifying the rural economy and reducing waste among the rural able-bodied population.
About the Author
A. V. Petrikov
All-Russian Institute of Agrarian Problems and Informatics. A. A. Nikonov – branch of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Federal Scientific Center for Agrarian Economics and Social Development of Rural Territories –
All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Economics”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Petrikov Alexander V., Academician RAS, Dr. Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Head
21, Building 1, Bolshoy Kharitonevsky Lane, Moscow, 107078
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For citations:
Petrikov A.V. Sustainable Development of the Russian Countryside as a Specific Measure of Demographic Policy. Federalism. 2026;31(1):76-91. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2025-4-76-91
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