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Evaluarea nevoilor populației prin metoda normativă: România 1989-2018
Assessment of the Needs of the Population through the Normative Method, 1989-2018

Author(s): Adina Mihăilescu
Subject(s): Welfare services, Economic development
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: needs; income; decent minimum of living; minimum subsistence; quality of life;

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes some concepts to argue why the quality of life in Romania is far from what was desired in the early nineties. Its presents the normative method that helps us to validate the consumption of the population by covering at minimum the essential goods and services necessary for the individual, and his family, at home and in society. Next part presents us a dynamic of social policy measures which fluctuates the main incomes of the population in the 1990-2018 time interval, and their influence on consumption. The last part of the study concludes: what are the needs of the population and to what extent they were satisfied, or not, within the time period studied. During the period of time 1990-2018 the incomes of the various families with children and pensioners could not keep up with the price increases on the products and services on the market. This has resulted in time deterioration in the quality of life of these families. The incomes or spendings of the population provide clear and concrete situation on the quality of life of the population and thus help to take action, through socio-economic policies oriented towards the benefit of the members of those companies. Household incomes are extremely sensitive to adverse developments in the economy, as well as to the failures of the national and world markets. The gap between Romanians and other Europeans incomes is determined by differences in the level and structure of employment but also of the wage policies adopted.

  • Issue Year: 17/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 35-53
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Romanian
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