Assessment of the Socio-economic Contribution of Volunteering in Russia

Student: Shchipitsyn Fedor

Supervisor: Gulnara Afruzovna Minnigaleeva

Educational Programme: Economics (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2021

With the annual growth in the number of volunteers in Russia, interest in the volunteer sector is growing. The assessment of the socio-economic contribution of volunteering is becoming more relevant for government bodies, which in the past few years have been pursuing an active policy aimed at supporting the non-profit sector. In addition, non-profit organizations, potential investors and volunteers themselves may be interested in such an assessment. In this paper, we reviewed approaches to researching volunteering and analyzed a number of methods for assessing the contribution of volunteering. Using Rosstat data, estimates of the contribution of organizational volunteering to the country's gross national product and the gross regional product of Russian regions were obtained.

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