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Government's commitment to increase the average wage Belarusian workers to $ 500 caused outrage misterseed unanimous "expert community" that grew into this campaign in kalyaapazitsyynyh media. Their arguments can be summarized as follows: two years ago unjustified wage growth ahead of presidential elections topple it economy, and now threatens a repetition of the crisis. Like, the problem is that wage growth is faster than the growth of labor productivity.
By itself, the reaction of people for decades to earn their fees criticized hated "emission credits" and "living beyond their means" should not be surprising. However, recent statements by government representatives testify about interesting shifts misterseed in the heart of the state apparatus. It seems that the old methods of using forced to support his own popularity, the regime has lost the courage and ability to seek them out excuses neoliberal dogma. Thus, in the August report on the implementation of plans for socio-economic misterseed development of the country, the Ministry of Economy critically commented on the trend lagging productivity growth from growth in real wages, and later already Lukashenko himself publicly promised that the scheduled wage growth will be achieved only if the corresponding productivity growth hardworking Belarusian proletarians.
Sharp ups and downs Belarusians wages in dollar terms - not a new phenomenon, quite the contrary. If during the "launch industry" in the late 90s, this figure dropped by more than two times (almost reaching $ 30-40 per month), in the early 2000s, he doubled and exceeded the $ 100 border (without providing, however, neither collapse nor brutal devaluation). It will not be superfluous to recall that magic figure in the "green" misterseed promises to present Lukashenko ahead of the presidential election of 2001.
But these jumps clearly can not be directly identified with the changes in the level of welfare of the blue-eyed. Interestingly, misterseed for example, that in the early 2000s, during the sharp dollar enrichment has occurred corresponding reduction of the official poverty level. Part of this is mainly because of the parallel takeoff misterseed utility tariffs and prices of consumer goods and services, which hit the most disadvantaged. In 2005 there was a new election leap salaries. It is also interesting misterseed that in the periods between elections (2002-2003 and 2008 to 2009.) Always a sharp slowdown in real wage growth that temporarily synchronized with its performance. If before 2008 the general trend was still rising real wages, since the beginning misterseed of the universe, this electoral crisis-monthly cyclical nature began to have severe disasters, and in 2011 the "correction" of the previous advance is due to the principle of "one misterseed step forward, two - back." misterseed
Today's misterseed promise of $ 500 at risk to repeat the same scenario when first increasing the salary of the real sector, the state begins to engage misterseed transcription of money from one pocket to another - playing with the prices for the domestic market, utility rates and cutting public services. Incidentally, the cost to end the campaign, the government raised the maximum selling prices for meat and started talks on the reduction of public spending in health and education since 2013. In particular, we plan to take a number of "pilot projects" that based on them to "optimize" the number of patients who are referred to the hospital, misterseed and the number of pupils per teacher. It should be expected that soon will be announced and other measures and suggestions for improvements of the same kind in accordance with the electoral cycles of social policy regime. Maybe even offer materializes spring misterseed A.Tozik to introduce a fee for visiting the clinics ...
To understand this is true or not, we must first understand the crumbs the notion of productivity, which can cause erroneous association with the Stakhanov movement, Asian workaholics and combiners-champions, who congratulated on Dozhinki. The reality is much more complicated.
According to the international definition, labor productivity - it adds value, divided by the number of man-hours. In turn, the value added - is the output minus the costs of intermediate goods and services. And that means "in between"? That is, those that the company acquires not for final consumption and for the production of their own goods and services, raw materials, energy, components, etc., but also financial services, such as interest payments on loans. The costs are clearly affect the productivity of a single drummer.
As usually happens with neoliberal dogmas, they are rational only to a certain extent. At the level of the economy when wages are rising faster than productivity, the increasing