There is no recipe on how to work with the communities, settlements and parts of the settlements. In each case, local conditions have to be considered as the basis and the adequate method or methods have to be developed with due consideration to these conditions. In order to enable the development expert, and then theContinue reading
Sub-culture is the totality of behaviours and values typical of a well-defined group within the society. Poverty is based on specific sub-cultural norms which means that these norms are different from the culture, conditions and relations characteristic to the middle-class. The culture of the poor crosses the borders of the settlements and shows similarities inContinue reading
Deep poverty is a new terminology that appeared in the second half of the 20th century. This term refers to the phenomenon when somebody lives, for a long time under the poverty threshold and there seems to be no possibility for that person to break out of this situation alone, without external intervention and support. Continue reading
Based on the statistical data of TÁRKI Social Research Institute, 17 percent of the total population and 26 percent of the children (between ages 0-17) lived under income poverty in 2012 in Hungary. Prior to the change of the political regime, until as late as 1981, poverty was not an issue to talk aboutContinue reading
One of the global problems of the 21st century is poverty caused by increasing inequalities a part of which is of transitional nature and is the result of economic recession. There are also structural reasons behind increasing inequality, like, for example, distribution of income and property and the social and economic subordination of certain socialContinue reading