POLICY RESPONSES TO POVERTY: IS ROMANIA ON THE ROAD TOWARDS A NEW INTEGRATIVE APPROACH?
POLICY RESPONSES TO POVERTY: IS ROMANIA ON THE ROAD TOWARDS A NEW INTEGRATIVE APPROACH?

Summary/Abstract: Poverty and social exclusion represent an essential topic for our society, a topic considered to be the main challenge for the years to come. Even if, nowadays, the social problems of the society are tried to be solved through an intervention in the social and the economic field, at the same time, being known that if we don’t have an efficient increasingly economy we would not have the resources to fight with social exclusion, data show that the current trend of global economic growth did not bring an improvement in the social field, and did not reduce the inequalities, but, adversely, they grew and continue to grow. Moreover, the economic crisis brings along not only a fragile environment but also low quality jobs and more people in risk of poverty and social exclusion. Statistics in Europe show that the social situation is not improving, but, in some countries, is even worsening. Romania is one of them, poverty remaining a major challenge for this country. For these reasons, the paper tries to offer an overview of the strategic measures taken in Romania in order to alleviate poverty, to emphasize those fields in which the measures show limited progress (as noticed by the European Commission), and to present the currently proposed package of anti-poverty measures and the dilemmas that come along.

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