EJPAU 2006. Łuczka-Bakuła W. , Kalinowski S. POVERTY AND ITS SELECTED CAUSES IN THE NEW EU COUNTRIES

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2006
Volume 9
Issue 1

Topic:

Economics

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Łuczka-Bakuła W. , Kalinowski S. 2006. POVERTY AND ITS SELECTED CAUSES IN THE NEW EU COUNTRIES, EJPAU 9(1), #24.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume9/issue1/abs-24.html

POVERTY AND ITS SELECTED CAUSES IN THE NEW EU COUNTRIES

Władysława Łuczka-Bakuła, Sławomir Kalinowski
Department of Economics, Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland

ABSTRACT

In this paper the problem of poverty in the new countries of the EU is investigated. The issue of poverty before and after social transfers is discussed. Also presented are some of the social exclusion indicators pertinent to this analysis. The analysis has shown, that poverty results in social exclusion, as it impedes the performance of social roles and the use of public goods and social infrastructure. Average monetary poverty threat indicators for Poland are similar to values for the EU; but the median level of income in the European Union is three times higher than it is in Poland and product baskets vary considerably at the poverty threshold.

Key words: unemployment, exclusion indicators, at-risk-of-poverty rate, Gini coefficient.

Władysława Łuczka-Bakuła
Department of Economics,
Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland
Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
phone: (+48 61 848 71 32)
email: luczka@au.poznan.pl

Sławomir Kalinowski
Department of Economics,
Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland
ul. Wojska Polskiego 28, 60-637 Poznan, Poland
email: skalin@au.poznan.pl

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