Publication: Social Exclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Global Crisis
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2012-03
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2013-04-22
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The note is structured as follows: section two provides a brief discussion of the data; section three presents the Life in Transition-Supplemental Modules (LITS-SM) findings on the impact of the crisis, while section four presents the new profile of social inclusion indicators. How risk of poverty, material deprivation and low work intensity are inter-related, as well as how they are related to a consumption-based poverty measure is explored in section five. Two other dimensions of social inclusion, housing and long-term unemployment, are examined in section six. Section seven provides some concluding considerations.
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“World Bank. 2012. Social Exclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Global Crisis. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13237 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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