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Sdg 1 2030 For Ending Poverty – Can Achieve This Goal In The Balkan Countries?

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  • Aleksandra Stoilkovska

    (University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia)

  • Marija Apostolova Nikolovska

    (University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, North Macedonia)

Abstract

The eradication of poverty as the main target of Sustainable Development Goal 1 by 2030 is the subject of this paper, which analyzes the national voluntary reviews of the Balkan countries and the data presented in them and which are primarily related to poverty as a multidimensional concept. Further, the paper investigate concept of poverty and gives overview poverty conditions in the region, underlining their complexity and some implications. Education seems to be an important determinant and poverty has also a spatial dimension in all these countries. As part of this paper, the issues of the situation with poverty in the Balkan countries through the prism of the covid crisis are considered, as well as this burning challenge – ,,inequality virus” for the situation in Macedonia with emphasis on the relevant strategic documents. Poverty moreover affects unemployment and that is why the paper presents the number of unemployed in 2020 in the Balkan countries. In the paper we concludes that governments must act on the urgency to create significant reforms, in redesigning the types and adequacy of social welfare cash benefits and support to the most vulnerable categories.

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  • Aleksandra Stoilkovska & Marija Apostolova Nikolovska, 2021. "Sdg 1 2030 For Ending Poverty – Can Achieve This Goal In The Balkan Countries?," UTMS Journal of Economics, University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia, vol. 12(2), pages 240-252.
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    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure

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