poverty

  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Potential presidential candidates begin saying what voters want to hear

Potential candidates in the presidential election have begun talking about social segregation and strengthening the regions and this helps them…

7 years ago
  • Society

30.1% of Lithuania’s population at poverty line in 2016 – Eurostat

Some 30.1 percent of Lithuania's residents were at the poverty line last year, which is one of the bigger indicators…

7 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Scandalous alcohol data is analyzed: there is an important mistake in formulas and conclusions

Lithuania has some of the strictest alcohol control restrictions now but alcohol consumption in the country remains very high, says…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Budget 2017 – who will be better of next year?

The President and the new government have stressed a number of times that one of the greatest tasks for next…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Economists say statistics do not show the real poverty situation in Lithuania

Statistics Lithuania has announced data showing that 22.2% of Lithuania‘s population risked falling into poverty last year. Economists were quick…

8 years ago
  • Economy

Over one fifth of Lithuanians face poverty

Some 640,000 of Lithuania's population, or 22.2%, were below the poverty risk line in 2015, up by 3.1 points year-on-year,…

8 years ago
  • Economy

Economic growth widens income gap in Lithuania

While average pay in Lithuania has been growing uninterruptedly for some years now, part of the population still have not…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuanian PM disagrees that income gap is growing

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has contested suggestions that social exclusion in the country is growing. [...]

9 years ago
  • Economy

Over fourth of Lithuania’s population at risk of poverty

In 2014, 27.3 percent of Lithuania's population or 800,000 people were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, in comparison…

9 years ago
  • Economy

One in five Lithuanians below poverty risk line

Some 560,000 people in Lithuania, or 19.1 percent of the country’s population, were below the poverty risk line last year,…

9 years ago
  • Society

Poverty reduction with Skirma Kondratas: the squeaky wheel gets the grease?

“I think that poverty is like pornography in one respect. It is pretty hard to define, but when you see…

10 years ago
  • Society

Almost third of Lithuanians face poverty risk

Some 30.8 percent of the Lithuanian population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2013, figures from the…

10 years ago
  • Economy

One in five Lithuanians at risk of falling into poverty

Some 610,000 people in Lithuania, or 20.6 percent of the population, lived below the poverty risk line last year, 2…

10 years ago