The paper is concerned with poverty in Romania during a period of economic growth (2000-2008). The poverty incidence … and profile before financial and economic crisis and the evolution of poverty in the context of economic growth and of a … strong increase of households income have been studied, aiming to identify who is the most vulnerable at poverty risk and to …

. We argue that analysis of subjective wellbeing can be used to enrich and validate the process of poverty analysis in the …

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are … has the tradition and the practice to use relative poverty as “official” poverty estimates (Common Laeken indicators); the … USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays …

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …

Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and … the EU member states use one or several ‘official’ poverty indicators on which success of poverty reduction policy is … regularly monitored. Whereas the US poverty indicator is based on an absolute concept of poverty, the EU Laeken indicator is …

been experienced, in Bulgaria, Albania and Romania, adjusting to the new market environment has followed different paths …