poverty

The protracted COVID-19 pandemic has seriously affected Romania’s economic activity and household incomes in the short-run, says the World Bank’s Human Capital Index. "A proactive but constrained fiscal response supported firms to retain…

Child mortality has significantly dropped in Romania in the past years, but there is still an obvious gap among counties, and between urban and rural areas, reads the latest report by the "Save the Children" NGO. The report shows that…

Europeans have an average of EUR 14,739 per person available for spending and saving in 2019, reads the latest study “GfK Purchasing Power Europe 2019”. However, disposable net income among the 42 studied countries varies significantly:…

Minister for Diaspora, Natalia Intotero, has announced on Wednesday that the latest official statistics revealed that about 9.7 million Romanians are living abroad, stressing that the main emigration reasons are related to corruption, the…

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.…