Poverty may increase in regions dependent on tourism
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It cannot be ruled out that 2020 will bring an increase in the risk of poverty in regions where the tourism and event industries play an important economic role, and where production activities have been suspended, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) wrote.
In its study, PIE reminded that the Central Statistical Office (GUS) provides indicators on the extent of economic poverty each year, taking into account its three borders: extreme poverty, relative poverty and the so-called statutory poverty line. As PIE notes, in 2019, compared to 2017, the values of all indicators of the extent of economic poverty decreased.
"Both in 2017 and 2019, the extent of economic poverty was higher in the eastern part of Poland than in other regions. Three regions: Podlaskie, Warmińsko-Mazurskie and Małopolskie in 2017 and 2019 were in the group with the highest coverage economic poverty and in both years, they were in the top three places in the poverty coverage rankings," we read.
As PIE noted, only two regions (Opolskie and Śląskie) can be classified as the regions with the lowest extent of economic poverty, both in 2017 and 2019. In 2019, Dolnośląskie and Pomorskie also joined this group.
In 2019, compared to 2017, there is a certain increase in the extent of poverty in the Łódź and Warsaw-Capital regions. In turn, the regional Mazowieckie and Świętokrzyskie regions were in the group of regions with a moderate poverty level in 2017, but after two years they were among the regions with a higher level of economic poverty than others.
(PAP)
