Download or read book Poverty and Social Protection in Bulgaria written by Jean-Jacques Hallaert and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal redistribution. The redistributive role of direct taxation has declined with the introduction of a flat tax and social spending is relatively low and decreasing (as a share of GDP), is concentrated on a few social risks, and experienced a decline in its redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies.
Download or read book Labor Markets and Poverty in Bulgaria written by Jan J. Rutkowski and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Protection in the Candidate Countries written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the economical, social and demographic conditions regarding the national social protection systems and its evolution within the last 5 to 10 years in the candidature countries to join the European Union. Provides a detailed analysis of the pension system, the health care system, and the area of poverty and social exclusion.
Download or read book Poverty and Social Security in Bulgaria During Transition written by Rumen Dobrinsky and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Security in the Balkans Volume 1 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a multifaceted analysis of the social security system in the Balkan states and offers a comprehensive overview and recommendations on social problems in the region.
Download or read book Poverty in Transition and Transition in Poverty written by Yogesh Atal and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty is an issue facing countries around the globe, yet it is a multi-dimensional phenomenon caused by a variety of factors, differing from context with no linear chain of cause and effect. The occurrence and persistence of poverty is influenced by an interrelated web of economic, social, psychological, cultural, and political factors. Focusing on countries-in-transition belonging to the former Soviet bloc where the existence of poverty was officially denied until the collapse of the Soviet Union, this volume examines the ways in which each country is dealing with its newly acknowledged and rapidly increasing poverty. The transition from socialism to democracy and market economies has proved more difficult and costly than anyone imagined. Scholars from the six countries examined here profile and evaluate current social policies and programs on poverty eradication and provide a comparative perspective that ensures that culturally specific solutions can be found in place of borrowed solutions from abroad - solutions which have thus far ignored the cultural factor and have thus failed to deliver.
Download or read book Social Safety Net and the Poor During the Transition written by Fareed M. A. Hassan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulgaria's social safety net is not well targeted; too many benefits accrue to better-off households rather than to the poor. Comprehensive reform is needed, focusing on pensions, unemployment benefits, child allowances, and social assistance.Using data from the 1992 Bulgarian household budget survey, Hassan and Peters analyze the structure of income in Bulgaria, identifying who the poor are and how they are reached by the social safety net. Their main findings about household incomes:- Social transfers provide an extremely large component - 24 percent - of household income per capita. That is roughly on a par with the share in other Eastern European countries but more than 40 percent higher than the share in OECD countries.- Wage earnings have declined as a source of income, reflecting the contraction of the state sector. Wage income as a share of income in Bulgaria has declined to only half the OECD level.- Income from self-employment has increased, reflecting the surge in small-scale retail establishments.- Income is considerably less concentrated in Bulgaria than in other lower-middle-income countries.The authors' main findings about the poor (the bottom 20 percent in terms of household income):The head of household in a poor home tends to be older, a woman, poorly educated, and unemployed. Poor households are not necessarily larger households in Bulgaria, unlike in other developing countries.The sources of income in poor Bulgarian households reflect other findings:- The poor depend for more than half their income on social benefits (especially pensions), indicating the importance of the social safety net.- The social safety net is not well targeted. Most social benefits are pro-poor, in the sense that they improve income distribution, but many benefits accrue to better-off households. There is substantial scope for better distribution of income.Hassan and Peters conclude that comprehensive reform of social benefits is needed, focusing on pensions, unemployment benefits, child allowances, and social assistance.This paper - a product of the Country Operations Division, Europe and Central Asia, Country Department I - is part of a larger effort in the department to analyze the social dimensions of stabilization and adjustment.
Download or read book Social Safety Net and the Poor During the Transition The Case of Bulgaria written by A. M. Fareed Hassan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May 1995 Bulgaria's social safety net is not well targeted; too many benefits accrue to better-off households rather than to the poor. Comprehensive reform is needed, focusing on pensions, unemployment benefits, child allowances, and social assistance. Using data from the 1992 Bulgarian household budget survey, Hassan and Peters analyze the structure of income in Bulgaria, identifying who the poor are and how they are reached by the social safety net. Their main findings about household incomes: * Social transfers provide an extremely large component -- 24 percent -- of household income per capita. That is roughly on a par with the share in other Eastern European countries but more than 40 percent higher than the share in OECD countries. * Wage earnings have declined as a source of income, reflecting the contraction of the state sector. Wage income as a share of income in Bulgaria has declined to only half the OECD level. * Income from self-employment has increased, reflecting the surge in small-scale retail establishments. * Income is considerably less concentrated in Bulgaria than in other lower-middle-income countries. The authors' main findings about the poor (the bottom 20 percent in terms of household income): The head of household in a poor home tends to be older, a woman, poorly educated, and unemployed. Poor households are not necessarily larger households in Bulgaria, unlike in other developing countries. The sources of income in poor Bulgarian households reflect other findings: * The poor depend for more than half their income on social benefits (especially pensions), indicating the importance of the social safety net. * The social safety net is not well targeted. Most social benefits are pro-poor, in the sense that they improve income distribution, but many benefits accrue to better-off households. There is substantial scope for better distribution of income. Hassan and Peters conclude that comprehensive reform of social benefits is needed, focusing on pensions, unemployment benefits, child allowances, and social assistance. This paper -- a product of the Country Operations Division, Europe and Central Asia, Country Department I -- is part of a larger effort in the department to analyze the social dimensions of stabilization and adjustment.
Download or read book Poverty and Social Assistance in Transition Countries written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declining incomes and growing income inequality have led to a rise in poverty in the transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This study examines poverty and social assistance in six countries - Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Estonia, Russia, and Kyrgyz Republic - to compare the poverty profiles and the correlates of poverty between the two regions. The study finds that the profile of poverty is more sharply defined in Eastern Europe than in the former Soviet Union, where poverty is more widespread. This holds the potential for better targeting of social assistance in Eastern Europe, and the study proposes a novel two-step approach to identify the poor.
Download or read book Social Protection in a Time of Restructuring written by Nikolai Genov and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond Volume 1 written by Jean-Michel Lafleur and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first open access book in a series of three volumes provides an in-depth analysis of social protection policies that EU Member States make accessible to resident nationals, non-resident nationals and non-national residents. In doing so, it discusses different scenarios in which the interplay between nationality and residence could lead to inequalities of access to welfare. Each chapter maps the eligibility conditions for accessing social benefits, by paying particular attention to the social entitlements that migrants can claim in host countries and/or export from home countries. The book also identifies and compares recent trends of access to welfare entitlements across five policy areas: health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions, and guaranteed minimum resources. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO’s.
Download or read book Bulgaria written by Weltbank and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides estimates of the level poverty and changes in living conditions between 2003 and 2007 in the new European Union (EU) member state Bulgaria. This report fills key gaps in the understanding of the state of welfare in Bulgaria and its future trends. It provides an assessment of changes in living standards since 2003, a period of sustained robust growth and intensive reform efforts leading to successful EU accession, and the current profile of the poor. The report quantifies the level of deprivation and the gains in poverty reduction and overall welfare improvements in different segments of Bulgaria's population. The study aims to support policy discourse on poverty reduction and strengthening of social protection by providing a robust assessment of living conditions among various individual, household, geographic, and socioeconomic groups and of the actual and likely future effectiveness of current poverty reduction policies. The report is organized as follows. Section two examines welfare trends between 2003 and 2007, decomposes changes in poverty, and links poverty outcomes to growth. In section three, the poverty profile is presented based on the results of the 2007 Multitopic Household Survey (MTHS) data. Correlates and determinants of consumption expenditures are presented in section four. Annex A provides a detailed account of the concept of poverty and the methodology used for measuring poverty in this report. Annex B presents supplementary data.
Download or read book Modeling Active Social Programs in Bulgaria Through Social Entrepreneurship Encouragement written by Venelin Terziev and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary society one of the priorities for development is to assure social inclusion and equality through provision of employment opportunities and increasing incomes by the active involvement of citizens in the labor market. Among the specific measures is the encouragement of entrepreneurship, and social entrepreneurship in particular. Implementation of such active social policies contributes to effective solutions to the problems of poverty and social exclusion. Current study examines social entrepreneurship and social enterprises as an opportunity to build a model of an active social program based on the notion that the most critical to tackling poverty and social exclusion is the application of such social policies that give people access to economic opportunities and knowledge and skills to utilize opportunities - so that they cope with the trap of poverty and social exclusion, dependence on social protection system, vulnerability to the adverse events of economic or social nature.
Download or read book Bulgaria written by International Monetary Fund. European Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Selected Issues paper reviews recent developments in growth and employment in Bulgaria and highlights key constraints to growth suggested by cross-country competitiveness studies. Bulgaria’s GDP has grown substantially since economic and financial stabilization in 1997. The global economic crisis had a major effect on Bulgarian growth and employment. After falling by 51⁄2 percent in 2009, real GDP has grown at a low rate, and by 2012 real GDP was still 3 percent short of its 2008 level. However, employment growth was negative during 2009–2012, and the first small uptick occurred only in 2013.
Download or read book Development Centre Studies Can Social Protection Be an Engine for Inclusive Growth written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The potential role of social protection in the development process has received heightened recognition in recent years, yet making a strong investment case for social protection remains particularly challenging in many emerging and developing countries. This report challenges us to think deeply about the economic rationale for social protection investments through an inclusive development lens. It helps us understand the links between social protection, growth and inequality; how to measure those links empirically; social protection’s impact on inclusive growth; and how to build a more solid economic case for greater social protection investments.
Download or read book World Social Protection Report 2017 19 written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
