Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States

European Council approved the Europe 2020 strategy, an economic growth and wellbeing improvement plan for the European Union (EU) in the ensuing decade. The strategy includes five interrelated headline targets to be achieved by the year 2020, encom...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Poverty Assessment
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2013
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17939141/poverty-prospects-europe-assessing-progress-towards-europe-2020-poverty-social-exclusion-targets-new-european-union-member-states
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topic ABSOLUTE POVERTY
BENEFICIARIES
CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
CHRONIC ILLNESS
CITIES
COUNTRY LEVEL
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
DISABLED PEOPLE
DISADVANTAGED GROUPS
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EDUCATION LEVEL
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
EQUILIBRIUM
ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS
EXPLAINING CHANGES
EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
FAMILY LABOR
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FORECASTS
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HIGH EMPLOYMENT
HIGH GROWTH
HOSPITALS
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
IMMIGRANTS
IMPACT ON POVERTY
INCOME
INCOME DATA
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME POVERTY
INCOME TRANSFERS
INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
INDEXES
INDICATORS OF POVERTY
INEQUALITY
INNOVATION
INSURANCE
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKET INDICATORS
OLD AGE
OLDER WORKERS
OUTCOME INDICATORS
PER CAPITA GROWTH
PERSISTENT POVERTY
POLICY CHANGE
POLICY INTERVENTIONS
POLICY MAKERS
POLICY REFORMS
POOR
POOR PEOPLE
POVERTY IMPACTS
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY INDICATORS
POVERTY LEVELS
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY POVERTY
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY THRESHOLD
PRIVATE TRANSFERS
PROBABILITY
REDUCING POVERTY
RELATIVE POVERTY LINE
RETIREMENT
RURAL
RURAL AREAS
SECOND ROUND EFFECTS
SELECTION BIAS
SHARP REDUCTION
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
SOCIAL BENEFITS
SOCIAL INCLUSION
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
SOCIAL PROTECTION
TARGETING
UNEMPLOYED
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
WAGES
spellingShingle ABSOLUTE POVERTY
BENEFICIARIES
CAPITAL INVESTMENTS
CHRONIC ILLNESS
CITIES
COUNTRY LEVEL
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
DISABLED PEOPLE
DISADVANTAGED GROUPS
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
EDUCATION LEVEL
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
EMPLOYMENT STATUS
EQUILIBRIUM
ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS
EXPLAINING CHANGES
EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
FAMILY LABOR
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FORECASTS
GROWTH RATE
GROWTH RATES
HIGH EMPLOYMENT
HIGH GROWTH
HOSPITALS
HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
HOUSEHOLD SURVEY
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
IMMIGRANTS
IMPACT ON POVERTY
INCOME
INCOME DATA
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
INCOME INEQUALITY
INCOME POVERTY
INCOME TRANSFERS
INDEPENDENT VARIABLES
INDEXES
INDICATORS OF POVERTY
INEQUALITY
INNOVATION
INSURANCE
LABOR FORCE
LABOR MARKET
LABOR MARKET INDICATORS
OLD AGE
OLDER WORKERS
OUTCOME INDICATORS
PER CAPITA GROWTH
PERSISTENT POVERTY
POLICY CHANGE
POLICY INTERVENTIONS
POLICY MAKERS
POLICY REFORMS
POOR
POOR PEOPLE
POVERTY IMPACTS
POVERTY INCIDENCE
POVERTY INDICATORS
POVERTY LEVELS
POVERTY LINE
POVERTY POVERTY
POVERTY RATE
POVERTY RATES
POVERTY REDUCTION
POVERTY THRESHOLD
PRIVATE TRANSFERS
PROBABILITY
REDUCING POVERTY
RELATIVE POVERTY LINE
RETIREMENT
RURAL
RURAL AREAS
SECOND ROUND EFFECTS
SELECTION BIAS
SHARP REDUCTION
SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
SOCIAL ASSISTANCE
SOCIAL BENEFITS
SOCIAL INCLUSION
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
SOCIAL PROTECTION
TARGETING
UNEMPLOYED
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS
WAGES
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Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Eastern Europe
European Union
description European Council approved the Europe 2020 strategy, an economic growth and wellbeing improvement plan for the European Union (EU) in the ensuing decade. The strategy includes five interrelated headline targets to be achieved by the year 2020, encompassing employment, innovation, education, poverty and social inclusion, and climate/energy. An overarching goal of the Europe 2020 strategy is to reduce the number of poor and social excluded people by 20 million, with national level targets set by each of the EU Member States. The European council used three measures of poverty and social exclusion: at risk of poverty rate, a measure of relative poverty defined as the percent of the population with incomes less than 60 percent of the national median income after social transfers; the index of severe material deprivation, a measure of the percent of people who cannot afford a number of necessities that are considered essential in order to live decent lives in Europe; and low work intensity, which is the percentage of people living in households in which adults worked less than 20 percent of their potential. This paper sheds light on the impact of improving employment and education conditions on poverty and social exclusion indicators. This paper is divided into eight sections. Section one introduction, section two provides background information on poverty and social exclusion indicators in the ten countries in the New Member States (NMS) group, including their evolution since 2005. Section three describes the data sources used and defines the key variables of interest. Section four outlines the methodology used to simulate indicators of poverty and social exclusion. Section five first presents the results from a validation exercise in which data from 2005 are used to simulate the likely outcomes in 2008, and then compares the simulated 2008 values to the actual 2008 values. Section six presents the results of the simulation exercise for the ten countries in the study. Section seven provides an illustration of how the simulation model has been adapted to address policies on pre-schools in Poland. And finally, section eight offers a set of overall conclusions.
format Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
author_sort World Bank
title Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States
title_short Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States
title_full Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States
title_fullStr Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States
title_full_unstemmed Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States
title_sort poverty prospects in europe : assessing progress towards the europe 2020 poverty and social exclusion targets in new european union member states
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2013
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17939141/poverty-prospects-europe-assessing-progress-towards-europe-2020-poverty-social-exclusion-targets-new-european-union-member-states
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16254
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spelling okr-10986-162542021-04-23T14:03:28Z Poverty Prospects in Europe : Assessing Progress towards the Europe 2020 Poverty and Social Exclusion Targets in New European Union Member States World Bank ABSOLUTE POVERTY BENEFICIARIES CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CHRONIC ILLNESS CITIES COUNTRY LEVEL DEPENDENT VARIABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY DISABLED PEOPLE DISADVANTAGED GROUPS ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT GROWTH EMPLOYMENT STATUS EQUILIBRIUM ESTIMATED COEFFICIENTS EXPLAINING CHANGES EXPLANATORY VARIABLES FAMILY LABOR FINANCIAL CRISIS FORECASTS GROWTH RATE GROWTH RATES HIGH EMPLOYMENT HIGH GROWTH HOSPITALS HOUSEHOLD BUDGET HOUSEHOLD INCOME HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IMMIGRANTS IMPACT ON POVERTY INCOME INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME POVERTY INCOME TRANSFERS INDEPENDENT VARIABLES INDEXES INDICATORS OF POVERTY INEQUALITY INNOVATION INSURANCE LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET INDICATORS OLD AGE OLDER WORKERS OUTCOME INDICATORS PER CAPITA GROWTH PERSISTENT POVERTY POLICY CHANGE POLICY INTERVENTIONS POLICY MAKERS POLICY REFORMS POOR POOR PEOPLE POVERTY IMPACTS POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDICATORS POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY POVERTY POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY THRESHOLD PRIVATE TRANSFERS PROBABILITY REDUCING POVERTY RELATIVE POVERTY LINE RETIREMENT RURAL RURAL AREAS SECOND ROUND EFFECTS SELECTION BIAS SHARP REDUCTION SIGNIFICANT IMPACT SOCIAL ASSISTANCE SOCIAL BENEFITS SOCIAL INCLUSION SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROTECTION TARGETING UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS WAGES European Council approved the Europe 2020 strategy, an economic growth and wellbeing improvement plan for the European Union (EU) in the ensuing decade. The strategy includes five interrelated headline targets to be achieved by the year 2020, encompassing employment, innovation, education, poverty and social inclusion, and climate/energy. An overarching goal of the Europe 2020 strategy is to reduce the number of poor and social excluded people by 20 million, with national level targets set by each of the EU Member States. The European council used three measures of poverty and social exclusion: at risk of poverty rate, a measure of relative poverty defined as the percent of the population with incomes less than 60 percent of the national median income after social transfers; the index of severe material deprivation, a measure of the percent of people who cannot afford a number of necessities that are considered essential in order to live decent lives in Europe; and low work intensity, which is the percentage of people living in households in which adults worked less than 20 percent of their potential. This paper sheds light on the impact of improving employment and education conditions on poverty and social exclusion indicators. This paper is divided into eight sections. Section one introduction, section two provides background information on poverty and social exclusion indicators in the ten countries in the New Member States (NMS) group, including their evolution since 2005. Section three describes the data sources used and defines the key variables of interest. Section four outlines the methodology used to simulate indicators of poverty and social exclusion. Section five first presents the results from a validation exercise in which data from 2005 are used to simulate the likely outcomes in 2008, and then compares the simulated 2008 values to the actual 2008 values. Section six presents the results of the simulation exercise for the ten countries in the study. Section seven provides an illustration of how the simulation model has been adapted to address policies on pre-schools in Poland. And finally, section eight offers a set of overall conclusions. 2013-11-13T22:45:41Z 2013-11-13T22:45:41Z 2013-06 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/06/17939141/poverty-prospects-europe-assessing-progress-towards-europe-2020-poverty-social-exclusion-targets-new-european-union-member-states http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16254 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment Economic & Sector Work Europe and Central Asia Eastern Europe European Union