Tendinţe recente în evoluţia veniturilor disponibile şi a cheltuielilor de consum ale populaţiei din Republica Moldova

Abstract

In 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread around the world, causing a global pandemic. As a result of the restriction of human activities, including economic ones, in order to limit the spread of the virus, the disposable income of the population also suffered, implicitly also its consumption expenditures. In this article we try to identify how much the Republic of Moldova has been affected, highlighting the recent trends in the evolution of disposable income and consumer spending of the population of the Republic of Moldova. In general, it is observed that the year 2021 is characterized by a much more significant increase in the average monthly disposable income of the population compared to 2020 than in the period 2019-2020. The year 2021 is characterized by an increase compared to previous years of the gap between the average gross monthly nominal salary in the real sector compared to the budgetary sector. At the same time, the year 2021 shows a stronger increase in the average monthly consumption expenditures of the population compared to 2020 than between the latter year and 2019 and also at a higher rate than in the case of disposable income.