Poverty reduction strategies
This article contains the analysis of international and Russian experience of creation of poverty reduction strategy. The author singles out basic stages of change of concepts of poverty control. The traditional distributive approach is supplemented with the models of social policy conditioning for development of the needy populations own activity on overcoming of poverty. The carried out analysis of the Russian legislation allows drawing a conclusion, that the mechanisms applied in the Russian social policy poorly meet the requirements of the development models and need modernization.