This year Yaroslavl Forum will pay much attention to social justice.

Participants of Global Policy Forum to be held on September 7-8 keep on discussing addenda issues. Director of the Institute for Public Planning Valery Fadeev told about the topics to be discussed at the section headed by him 'The rich and the poor: where is justice?'.

 

For a start he pointed out that this year over 100 of foreign and 300 of Russian participants will visit one of the largest political event s in Russia. Totally the Forum will host 500 spokesmen. According to Fadeev there will be ‘a great number of worthy men’.  Thus, Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin is going to speak at the section. ‘He will probably speak of serious radical solutions able to bring out Russian capital city out of the deadlock and to help it in further development’, - the expert believes. Fadeev marked up three main directions to be discussed at the section. They are growing poverty in developed countries, preparedness or unpreparedness of the third world countries for independent economic development, as well as disorganized economical system formed over the last decades of rapid economical growth, first of all in west counties following the WWII.

According to Fadeev the issue of growing poverty is up-to-date as for the USA so for all developed European countries. ‘Some economists mark out that middle class of the USA over the last 30 years has notably become poorer. Its real incomes have got down. Altogether the incomes of very insignificant part of privileged population are increased. Therefore we see erosion of middle class, basis of American society and American welfare. Perhaps it caused world crisis’, Fadeev outspoke his theory. Disorders in the Great Britain and Germany also give rise to new concerns. Those disorders are associated not only with the problem of disintegrating immigrants with West European society, but also with considerable decreasing incomes of many population stratums in Europe.

The other side of this problem is deindustrialization trends being practiced in west countries over the last twenty years. ‘Idea of moving production to developing countries and getting the major part of income from it proved to be out of action. Disposing all kinds of production in developing countries is impossible and incorrect since it causes degradation of economical system. That is exactly why we cannot disregard this issue’, Fadeev said.

Speaking of the third world countries and their preparedness for independent economic development it’s seen that some of them show conspicuous achievements, but others cannot move forward independently. ‘We don’t see any places where the interests of a great deal of milling about countries or just models of their development are being discussed. The crisis 2008 made a good deal of countries get together for ‘great twenty’. However there were no any real changes. But the Forum can do its bid to the discussion of the problem ’, Fadeev thinks.

The third key issue, deformed world economy system, provides for the discussion of puffed-up financial markets that according to Fadeev became direct reason of the crisis 2008, as well as alike puffed-up social obligations destabilizing situation in Europe, for instance in Greece. ‘We will touch on the issue of puffed-up global corporations that being guided by their capitalistic interests often stifle interests of the countries where they are localized’, the expert pointed out.

However the discussion won’t be limited to those directions. Deputy Head of Global Policy Forum Executive Directorate Jan Vaslavsky told that this year innovative format is foreseen. That is: on the first day of the Forum, work of sections, there will be a number of discussion platforms devoted to the topics being ranked below the section level, but too important to be selected as a separate event.

One of such topics for the section 'The rich and the poor: where is justice?' was announced by Deputy Director of Institute for Public Planning Mikhail Rogozhnikov. It is related to political area more than to social one. ‘Speaking of a new state we will a bit touch upon democracy issue became now a contest between two or three elite groups in developed countries’, the expert said. According to him, occupation of all political positions by limited ruling class led to the absence of development program. You can see it in all leading countries of the world. These countries are just milling about. Elections essentially became a contest for those few advantages that different groups being in power can get. Rogozhkov think this topic, against different political situation in Russia, is naturally got in the discussion of building a new state with justice between the rich and the poor reigning in it.

Author: ‘"Rossiiskaya Gazeta"  (Russian Gazette)’, Vitaly Petrov,

25.08.2011

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