NEW ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES FOR MEASURING POVERTY IN ROMANIA

Oana-Ramona G. Lobonţ
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Oana-Ramona G. Lobonţ: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timisoara

SEA - Practical Application of Science, 2013, issue 2, 158-166

Abstract: Poverty assessment requires and is generally based on the existence of well-defined levels of standard of living. Therefore, in this paper we try to investigate the opportunities for mesuring poverty offered by economic practice. as well as to outline the real possibilities for building an aggregate index, sufficiently complex to reveal the evolution of poverty as economic deprivation in Romania. In this paper, the construction of an Aggregate Romanian Index of Deprivation involves a subjective judgment because this index represents one of the methods used for configure the level and dynamics of poverty and social exclusion. The proposed index focuses on specific issues such as combining a number of indicators, chosen to cover a range of economic, social and housing issues, into a single deprivation score for each regions in Romania

Keywords: Aggregate Romanian Index of Deprivation; poverty; social exclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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