Official Reports Improved Roma Poverty Indicators
- 1 Jun 2016 9:00 AM
Poverty risk indicators for the Roma population have significantly declined in the past 2-3 years, an official at the human resources ministry said. The proportion of Roma experiencing income poverty fell from 68% to 63% while in-work poverty rate fell from 43% to 27% and the deprivation rate from 78% to 68%, state secretary Károly Czibere told a meeting of the Roma Coordination Council.
He said the latter indicator showed bigger improvement among the Roma than the non-Roma population. He said the results are proof that the government’s catch-up policies and spending on developments have helped improvements.
Helpful measures included making attendance at nursery school compulsory and infant day-care meals free of charge for a wider range of people, while also improving early infant education centres and access to one free meal a day in schools.
Czibere also noted the fostered work schemes which enrolled 60,000-66,000 Roma, as well as talent-nurturing programmes in schools.
Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.
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