This note provides an overview to the Romanian Public Finance System, the way that the system is monitored in a micro-simulation tool to assess distributional aspects of fiscal policy, and the overall...
On March 11, 2020, the world came to a halt when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. Countries around the globe raced to put in place curfew and movement restrictions, and...
COVID-19 had a vast and long-term impact on the economy. The pandemic was one of the largest economic shocks since World War Two. Polish economy contracted by 2.5 percent in 2020. Although the size of...
This report is about supporting vaccine uptake through addressing hesitancy in Romania. The summary of the report is as follows: vaccines respond to all messages: self-confirmation bias. Most prompts would...
This report focuses on the results of rapid response household surveys in Croatia as of April 2022. Past progress in poverty reduction has closely tracked economic growth. Economic and labor market recovery...
This paper uses methods developed by the Commitment to Equity Institute and data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey as well as the Household Budget Survey to assess...
This report focuses on the the progress in poverty reduction in Romania as of May 2022. It also focuses on the current poverty landscape in Romania, compared to other EU countries. It concludes with the...
This report focuses on the results of COVID-19 rapid response household survey conducted at Bulgaria in May 2022. The labor market has continued to show signs of recovery though an eighth of workers reported...
This report is part of a knowledge product series that the World Bank is leading to collect global information on COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and hesitancy. The main trends are based on data collected from...
This report is about supporting vaccine uptake through addressing hesitancy in Romania.
Following a deep contraction during the first wave of the pandemic, the labor market has improved in 2021. Pandemic related restrictions on work and shifts in remittance patterns fed into income drops...
This report focuses on the results of COVID-19 rapid response household surveys conducted in Croatia as of September 2021. After a difficult year, 2021 shows a strong recovery in growth and employment...
This report focuses on the results of COVID-19 rapid response household survey conducted at Bulgaria in September 2021. The labor market has continued to show signs of recovery though an eighth of workers...
General government in Poland consists of central government, local governments, and social insurance sector. Collection of taxes and contributions happens within centralized system, and the system is unified...
This report focuses on the results of COVID-19 rapid response household survey conducted at Bulgaria in June 2021. The labor market has continued to show signs of recovery though an eighth of workers reported...
Romania, low-work intensity households, large families, and individuals with lower education are more likely to be at risk of poverty. Pandemic related restrictions on work and shifts in remittance patterns...
Bulgaria has seen signs of recovery in the labor market a year on from the crisis, though the recovery has been uneven. This translated into an uneven recovery in household income. Bulgarians continued...
This report focuses on the findings from COVID-19 rapid survey response, round three in Bulgaria as of January 2021. The representatives from rural and urban areas were covered. Similar to the first wave...
This report focuses on the snapshot of household impacts of COVID-19 in Romania as of October 19, 2020. While employment remained strong for most, there were deep work impacts in April-May 2020. These...