In its latest Poverty Watch Report, the Slovak Network Against Poverty outlines the poverty situation in the country and zooms in on its impact on people experiencing poverty or social exclusion. In the second decade of this century, the Slovak Network notes, among other things, that the country’s growth dynamics slowed down compared to similar…
In its latest Poverty Watch Report the German National Poverty Conference (Nationale Armutskonferenz) maps poverty in the country and zooms in on the situation of people experiencing poverty or social exclusion. One of the observations is that after a significant increase in the percentage of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion between 2020…
Serbia is among the European countries with the highest risk of poverty and social exclusion, and among those with the highest social inequality. Global challenges in recent years, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the rise in food and energy prices, have further hampered and slowed the reduction of poverty and…
This year, Ireland’s Poverty Watch focuses on fiscal justice and social rights. Through analysing budget and other policy choices in relation the cost of living crisis, we assess how these measures and reforms address the lives and needs of people experiencing poverty, in the context of fiscal justice and social rights. Each year, we also…
What is the EAPN Poverty Watch Report? The EAPN Poverty Watch Reports start from the reality of people experiencing poverty and the perspectives of the NGOs that support and work with them: our 31 EAPN national networks and 13 European Organization members. Their main objectives are to: To monitor key trends and policy on poverty and…
Portugal’s Poverty Watch 2023 seeks to draw a picture of the country’s situation in terms of poverty and social exclusion, with a special focus on the current situation of high inflation and rising cost of living. The truth is that inflation rose too quickly in 2022, with peaks between July and October last year. In…
EAPN Poland outlines that 2023 will be a difficult year due to low economic growth and still high inflation, as well as the absence of some income support measures due to rising energy prices. Furthermore, this will also be another year of real depreciation for a large part of family and child benefits. On the…
Inflaion will remain high in 2023 and poverty will contnue to increase. It is estimated that by 2024 around one million people will live in poverty. Add to this that measures taken in 2022 to keep the lowest and low incomes somewhat afloat will expire in 2023 and it will be clear that action is…
The war in Ukraine, the migrant crisis, record inflation, devastating natural disasters – these are the events that have marked Lithuania and the world in recent years. Successive crises have affected Lithuania’s and the world’s economic development and created social challenges. Social policy and social protection of the population have played a key role in…
EAPN Italy presents its fourth edition of the Poverty Watch: the Observatory on Poverty. It is a year of transition, of passage from a Measure to support people in poverty with the abolition of the Citizenship Income from 31 July, the consequences of which are putting the people and families who have been beneficiaries of…