Looking back at better days Moldova is one of Europe's poorest states, despite its rich farmland and renowned vineyards that during communism earned the country the status of the breadbasket of ...

Moldova is a lower-middle income country, often labeled as “the poorest country in Europe”. Generally, poverty is concentrated among the rural population and is higher in the south and central areas ...

Moldova's Roma minority lives in almost total poverty, with as many as 75 percent of the population jobless. More than three-quarters of Romany children do not attend school, and health care is ...

Moldova has made good progress in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity, but the drivers of this progress in the past are likely to exercise a much more limited role, says the World Bank’s ...

Grinding poverty in Moldova Christian Cummins, Chisinau, Moldova / hs12/17/2013 Moldova is Europe's poorest country according to the UN's Human Development Index. Life in rural areas is marred by ...

Romania has joined the European Union amid great fanfare, but farmer Toader Nuca who lives just over the border in former Soviet Moldova only shrugs his shoulders in derision when he thinks about it.

Europe’s wealth disparity was stark in 2024, with several countries facing severe economic challenges. While many European ...

Moldova, perhaps the poorest country in Europe, is where post-Soviet leaders in the Kremlin have tested techniques also used in Georgia and Ukraine to destabilize those countries to try to keep ...

Summarizes the current knowledge and assessment of a country's poverty situation, describes the existing poverty reduction strategy, identifies gaps in poverty data, diagnotics, and monitoring ...

The inevitable increase in prices is perhaps the most painful wound that the Ukrainian conflict has inflicted on Moldova so far. 30% of the population lives on the poverty line.

About one third of the population of Moldova lives below the poverty line. This was stated by a member of parliament, based on the data of the national bureau of statistics and trade union ...

Summarizes the current knowledge and assessment of a country's poverty situation, describes the existing poverty reduction strategy, identifies gaps in poverty data, diagnotics, and monitoring ...