Social Impact Assessment of Croatian Railway Reforms
In Croatia, initial steps to reform the railway sector date back to the middle of the first decade of the 2000s, with the formation of Croatian railways as a holding company. To help with further reforms of the Croatian railway sector, over the per...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25515186/social-impact-assessment-croatian-railway-reforms-poverty-social-impact-analysis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23357 |
| Summary: | In Croatia, initial steps to reform the
railway sector date back to the middle of the first decade
of the 2000s, with the formation of Croatian railways as a
holding company. To help with further reforms of the
Croatian railway sector, over the period 2011-2013, the
World Bank was engaged in dialogue with the Croatian
Government and the Croatian railway companies which resulted
in a Croatian railway policy note. The poverty and social
impact analysis (PSIA) is an analysis of the intended and
unintended consequences of policy reforms on the wellbeing
or welfare of different social groups, with particular focus
on the poor and vulnerable. PSIA offers a set of analytical
and process tools that: (a) determine distributional impacts
to improve the analytical underpinnings of policy making;
and (b) engage appropriate stakeholders in the policy-making
process. The report is divided into following sections:
first section gives executive summary. The introduction
provides information on the economic situation in Croatia,
including unemployment rates and pensions, the situation of
the railway sector, and data on the restructuring process of
the Croatian railways companies in second section. The third
section contains the results obtained from the group
discussions and in-depth interviews which are divided into
four parts: the circumstances upon leaving the railway
companies, after leaving, transferring to a new workplace,
and the broader impacts on the community, including the
impacts of closed and reduced lines. The last part of the
section contains recommendations based on the obtained results. |
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