Poverty and exclusion in Hungary have undergone significant improvement in the past decade, and the same trend is prevalent in the Eastern-Central European region as well. However, redistribution only favoured…
Bulgaria continues to have very high levels of poverty and social exclusion. The country sustainably maintains some of the highest unfavourable levels among EU member-states in all significant and available indicators in…
2022 This year’s Poverty Watch Report gives an update on the meaning of poverty in light of Covid-19; on the energy crisis that began in 2021 and was doubly aggravated…
2022 Poverty Watch According to the latest measurements of the Czech Statistical Institute (CSI), the Czech Republic has more than 8.1% of people living in income poverty, which represents 901,200…
2022 In this Poverty Watch report 2022, there was strong cooperation with Latvian state institutions in reducing poverty, as well as the priority issues related to poverty and social exclusion…
2022 The last few years have been extremely difficult for Lithuania and the world. One crisis after another – the COVID-19 pandemic, the migrant crisis, rising energy prices, and the…
2022 2022 will be the year of the war in Ukraine.Not only the enormous numbers of people who are killed, injured and suffer enormous psychological damage, also the enormous economic…
2021 In 2011, as part of the implementation of the EU 2020 Strategy, the Polish Government assumed that by 2020, the number of Poles living in poverty would be 1.5…
2022 After two years of the pandemic, there is an increase in the at-risk-of-poverty rate at the national level. A clear sign that the pandemic has worsened the social and…
Romania has still both the highest poverty rate and the lowest relative poverty line1 of all EU member states. In 2017 to 2019 23.5% of the total resident population was…