Poverty Watch Romania | Poverty Watches Overview 2020
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…
Poverty Watch Slovakia | Poverty Watches Overview 2020, 2021 & 2022
2022 These past few years, full of misery and terror, the Slovakia Anti-Poverty Network has focused on strengthening the physical and mental health of the most affected groups: Seniors excluded…
Poverty Watch Slovenia | Poverty Watches 2021 & 2O22
2022 Key findings of this year’s report: NGOs, which deal with people in vulnerable situations daily, are noticing combined poverty as a consequence of several factors, which are not being properly…
Poverty Watch Spain | Poverty Watches Overview 2020, 2021 & 2022
2022 The Covid-19 pandemic widened the social and economic gap in Spain. Data from the Survey of Living Conditions published by the National Statistics Institute (INE) in June 2022 show an increase…
Poverty Watch UK | Poverty Watches Overview 2020
UK income and wealth inequality are high and wealth inequality is rising. London is the richest city in the UK, but has the highest concentrations of people in poverty, and…
Poverty Watch Iceland | Poverty Watches Overview 2020
The Icelandic system of social benefits is a myriad of different systems that don’t always work together, but when they do, it seems to rather work to benefit the system…
Poverty Watch Norway | Poverty Watches Overview 2020 & 2021
2021 According to AROPE statistics, 15.6 per cent of the population had a risk of ending up in poverty or social exclusion in 2019. The proportion has been increasing since…
Poverty Watch North Macedonia | Poverty Watches Overview 2020
Simulations predict that the poverty rate will rise from about 17% in 2019 to about 20‒23% in 2020, and from 55,000 to over 130,000 Macedonians (depending on how long the…
Poverty Watch IFSW | Poverty Watches Overview 2020
IFSW Europe has a focus on the role of social work and social care. Human rights and social justice are critical in any social workers thinking and actions. Social workers…
Poverty Watch AGE Platform | Poverty Watches Overview 2020
On the World Day for the Eradication of Poverty, AGE warns of the increase in social isolation and loneliness of older persons in the COVID-19 crisis, which is aggravated by…