poverty

Leaders of the USR-PLUS Alliance 2020 have criticised the Social Democrat Party on Sunday during their first electoral rally for the upcoming elections, held in Unirii Square in Cluj Napoca. According to the organisers, over 4,000 attended…

Promenada has launched the second edition of „The Empty Shop,” a campaign meant to change lives and help people in need through donations of clothes. The campaign is initiated by Promenada Mall, part of the NEP Rockcastle Group, in…

While in Bucharest on Friday to present the Country Report for Romania released by the European Commission on February 27, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Cretu has launched new criticism against the ruling power in…

Almost one third (28.2%) of the young people from Romania, aged from 18 to 24, who were in employment in 2017, were exposed to poverty risk, being the highest percentage in the European Union, as against a European average of 11%, read…

President Klaus Iohannis has delivered a message on the International Anti-corruption Day the past weekend, arguing that honesty and integrity must be restored at all levels of society, as corruption is a disease killing democracy, also…

Seven million Romanians are at risk of poverty. The alarming figure comes from the National Statistics Institute. Last year, one-third of the population lived in tough conditions, in houses with dirty walls and toilets in the courtyard.…

In 2017, 112.9 million people, or 22.5% of the population, in the European Union (EU) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion. This means that they were in at least one of the following three conditions: at risk of poverty after…

Romania was ranked 67th – behind its EU neighbors – in the new Human Capital Index (HCI), launched by the World Bank Group on Friday. Singapore, with an HCI score of 0.88 (on a scale of zero to 1), topped the list, while the top 20 spots…

European and national figures prove that, during the past years, no big steps to eradicate poverty have been made. The latest available figures are from 2017 and refer to 2016, proving that, without the state’s social aid, half of the…

Tatiana Proskuryakova, World Bank country manager for Romania and Hungary, has posted on her blog an analysis about her recent visits in our country. She mentions the main challenges Romania is facing on the way to complete reforms. Her…