Background Study for the National Strategy on Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction, 2015-2020
The background study for the national strategy on social inclusion and poverty reduction 2015-2020 was produced under a RAS agreement with the Ministry of Labor, Family, Social Protection, and Elderly of Romania. The report is a companion volume of...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Bucharest
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25887204/background-study-national-strategy-social-inclusion-poverty-reduction-2015-2020 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23830 |
| Summary: | The background study for the national
strategy on social inclusion and poverty reduction 2015-2020
was produced under a RAS agreement with the Ministry of
Labor, Family, Social Protection, and Elderly of Romania.
The report is a companion volume of the strategy, adopted by
the Romanian Government in May 2015, and summarizes the
diagnostics and analyses carried out by the World Bank team
to provide a sound empirical base for the strategy. Given
the multi-dimensional nature of poverty, the report includes
diagnostics and policy recommendations on employment, social
protection, education, health, housing, social
participation, as well as regional and rural development
policies. The document is based on a combination of desk
research, qualitative data analysis, new data collected by
the World Bank team and analyses of administrative, census,
and survey data. This included qualitative research (for
example, case-studies in two counties, interviews with
representatives of central governmental bodies, interviews
with recipients and eligible potential beneficiaries of
means-tested benefits and with social workers), and
quantitative data collection and analysis (a census on
social housing stock; census of frontline social workers; a
consolidated database of physicians, representatives of the
pharmacies, community nurses, and health mediators;
administrative dataset with social services for elderly,
social services for people with disabilities and specialized
child protection services; analysis of poverty. The book is
organized in four parts. The first part starts with an
analysis of the trends in poverty and social exclusion over
the past few years and with a poverty forecast for the next
five years (2015 to 2020). The second part analyzes the
sectoral policies that must be implemented to tackle the
problems identified in the first part of the volume. The
third part turns its focus to area-based policies and
discusses regional disparities, urban-rural differences, and
specific problems in small towns and villages, rural, and
urban marginalized areas, and Roma and non-Roma communities.
The fourth part discusses the actions needed to strengthen
the capacity of the public system to reduce poverty and
increase social inclusion. |
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