Montenegro

A man displaying a fragment of a mortar shell. Despite the horrific legacies left by the Balkan wars of the 1990s, citizens in three out of four Western Balkans countries today perceive socio-economic factors as the chief threats to social cohesion. © OSCE/Marko Georgiev
09 March 2010

Measuring quality of life and social exclusion in the Western Balkans

This article describes how methodology from the European ‘Quality of Life’ survey has been used to measure social exclusion in the new EU member states and the candidate countries. These results indicate that, in most of the...

Topics: Poverty, Social inclusion, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria , Croatia , Hungary , Montenegro , The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , Poverty Reduction , Employment, Global economic crisis, Data, Social policies, Income inequality, Policy development, Western Balkans, Quality of life, EU accession