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THE POVERTY IN SLOVAKIA IN COMPARISON TO OTHER SELECTED EU COUNTRIES
THE POVERTY IN SLOVAKIA IN COMPARISON TO OTHER SELECTED EU COUNTRIES

Author(s): Daniela Palaščáková, Nataliia Stepaniuk
Subject(s): Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Międzynarodowy Instytut Innowacji "Nauka - Edukacja - Rozwój"
Keywords: analysis; economics; poverty; country; crisis

Summary/Abstract: Poverty is a phenomenon which is present in all parts of the world. The main objective of the paper is to assess poverty in Slovakia compared with selected EU countries through cluster analysis. To the best of the country combined into clusters so as to achieve maximum similarity in terms of the monitoring indicators of poverty in the group, and the largest difference between the groups. Joining countries into clusters to be followed in a period of three years - 2006, 2009 and 2012 in order to determine the impact of the economic and financial crisis on poverty and social exclusion in the EU

  • Issue Year: 4/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 200-206
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English