Roma Poverty in Bulgaria: How to Understand It and What to Do about It?
Roma Poverty in Bulgaria: How to Understand It and What to Do about It?

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the issue of Roma poverty and the possible ways for its quantification. In the introductory part, the author presents the basic concepts and approaches to the definition of poverty, then applies them to the Roma using the data on the status of Roma households from surveys conducted by UNDP, the World Bank and the European Commission. The author concludes that multidimensional indicators are more appropriate for tracking the multi-dimensional phenomenon of Roma poverty. In the third part the article tests an indicator that integrates the main aspects of Roma poverty and allows for highlighting the quantitative contribution of each dimension of deprivation to the overall “poverty and social exclusion outcome.“ The author concludes that the proposed method is particularly relevant for the purposes of current policies aimed to tackle poverty among the Roma.

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