Report - UNDP Russia

(the Federal State Statistics Service) hasdeveloped a coefficient for interregionalcomparisons, which reflects differences in thecost of a fixed list of commodities and services.These two correcting coefficients differ from eachother to a considerable extent, especially fornorthern and eastern regions and the federalcities, so that adjustments made using themproduce different results. Table 2.3 shows percapita budget expenditures, including socialexpenditures, calculated by three methods:nominal, using the Rosstat coefficient, and usingthe Budget Expenditures Index.The choice between types of adjustmenthas major impact on the final result, so per capitabudget comparisons are relative. But someconclusions can be drawn, despite thedivergences. First, per capita financing of socialexpenditures is much higher in the three northernautonomous districts, with large fuel resourceproduction and scant population, as well as in thefederal cities. But most fuel & energy regions donot have strong advantages in their fiscal capacityand cannot spend much more on social items thanother regions, which have the benefit of largesubsidies from the federal budget.The lowest per capita socialexpenditures are in Bashkortostan, Udmurtiaand Orenburg Region, but they also have lessfiscal capacity. Tyumen Region stands out byhaving the biggest gap between overall percapita expenditures and per capitaexpenditures on social items (a threefolddifference). The Region was one of the first inTable 2.3Per capita expenditures of consolidated regional budgets and per capita social expenditures*of Russian regions in 2008 (thousand rubles per capita)Per capita budget expenditures, total Of which, per capita social expendituresAdjusted Adjusted Adjusted AdjustedNominal using the using the Nominal using the using theRosstat coefficient Budget Rosstat coefficient BudgetExpendituresExpendituresIndexIndexNenets Autonomous District 233 153 147 110 72 69Yamal-Nenets Autonomous 150 102 96 74 50 47DistrictKhanty-Mansi Autonomous 124 89 79 71 51 45DistrictSakhalin Region 100 68 46 52 35 24Moscow 126 89 134 45 32 48St. Petersburg 79 73 97 37 35 46Tyumen Region (withoutautonomous regions) 111 110 71 36 36 23Krasnoyarsk Territory 54 51 40 27 26 20Komi Republic 46 39 30 25 22 16RF regional average 44 44 44 22 22 22Republic of Tatarstan 39 47 47 20 23 24Perm Territory 35 34 38 20 19 21Kemerovo Region 40 48 44 20 24 22Tomsk Region 38 37 28 19 18 14Astrakhan Region 36 41 46 18 20 22Samara Region 35 33 42 18 17 21Orenburg Region 31 37 35 16 19 18Republic of Udmurtia 28 34 32 16 19 18Republic of Bashkortostan 27 31 29 14 16 15* Education, health care, fitness and sport, social policy and mass media33