Croatia appears on many a list, and while it’s typically placed at number one or close to it on ”must visit” locations around the world, when it comes to much more serious matters to do with the economic and political climate, Croatia doesn’t tend to fare too well, and with good reason. For a change, Croatia has managed to do quite well according to a recently published list by the United Nations (UN), which regards its Sustainable Development Agenda.
As Ljubica Gataric/VL/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 19th of November, 2018, according to a new report on the impact of social transfers on poverty within the European Union (EU), social transfers made in 2017 raised one third of the population’s income above the currently accepted poverty risk limit.
Despite Croatia’s unfavourable ”press” when it comes to lists outside of travel bloggers and their often very surface level glance at the country, Croatia has taken 21st place the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, through which national governments committed themselves to eradicating poverty and hunger, developing education, making proper healthcare accessible for all, gender equality, and eradicating other forms of inequality.
Croatia has taken 21st place out of 155 on the UN’s Sustainable Development List for 2018, and in relation to its first release back in 2016, the country has progressed by as many as fifteen places.
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and France are doing the best of all, with neighbouring Slovenia taking 8th place, Czech Republic taking 13th place, and behind Croatia lie many EU member states considered to be very developed, which is both encouraging in Croatia’s respect, and concering with regard to those countries.
As mentioned, according to the new report on the impact of social transfers on poverty within the EU, social transfers made back in 2017 raised one third of the population’s income above that of the considered poverty risk limit.
According to the members, social assistance withdrew 57 percent of Finns and 51 percent of Danes from their respective poverty zones, while social transfers made in Greece and Romania removed 16 percent of the risk groups out of the accepted poverty zone.
When it comes to social transfers made in Croatia, the number of those below the poverty line has been lessened by an entire quarter. Croatia is among the countries for which social transfers account for less than 6.2 percent of GDP, which is 2.7 percent below the European Union average.
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Click here for the original article by Ljubica Gataric/VL on Poslovni Dnevnik
