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11873_02 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour
inflation rates has a direct impact on both the changes that are identified in
the poverty results, the deterioration in income distribution(as measured by
the Gini coefficient) and the high tendency towards crimes as well as the
low quality of the health services.
The high poverty incidence and its rapid increase in the urban areas and all
other aspects that are related to it are affected by the high UER, the decline
in investment and GDP growth rates, and rapid decline in the real-mostly
fixed- incomes of the poor households are basically due to the price rise and
unemployment.
The apparent increase in certain crimes such as thefts, pick pocketing, rape
and corruption, is connected with unemployment, poverty and inability to
afford a decent living.
5.3. Key issues, political agenda and perspectives
Health and poverty are issues that are high on the priority list of the
government’s and the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) agenda.
The decentralization of service provision, the improvement of the health
insurance system, the improvement and wider coverage of primary health
care services, and better training of the medical service providers
(physicians, nurses and administrative staff) are among the main concerns of
the government and NDP.
In addition, the birth control issue acquires a special attention, as the
previous six years did not witness a steady reduction in the natural growth
rates. The main emphasis is currently on the means to reduce the population
growth rate, and thus to improve the outlook on the number of expected
population in 2017, and thus to reduce the pressure on the different social
services and on the budget in the near future.
As to the poverty issues, they are being dealt with through the different
programs, which are adopted by the various ministries, the Social Fund for
Development and the NGOs working in this area of support.
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