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Empirical Analysis using Household and Micro-level Datasets

Formal empirical analysis of the social impact of crises, policy adjustments and other economic events is typically underpinned by an ex- post analysis using nationally representative household survey data.
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Social Budget Tracking and Analysis

Social budget tracking and analysis tools monitor the extent of priority and protection given to public budget items and can influence government policies in favour of allocations to children and families.
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A Child Rights Lens for Poverty and Social Impact Analyses (PSIAs)

Poverty and Social Impact Analyses, PSIAs, are aimed at facilitating an ex-ante understanding of the potential distributional impacts of a given policy reform. Child rights centered PSIAs, add a child focus to these impact assessments, as tools specifically designed to promote more child sensitive real-time policy making.

Rapid Assessment of the Social and Poverty Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Romania


The rapid assessment of the impacts of the 2008-09 economic downturn in Romania was initiated and supported by UNICEF in collaboration with the Social Development Department (SDV) of the World Bank. The research started in June 2009 and continued with other three rounds in November 2009, May 2010, and December 2010. This exercise has been designed as a panel study based on qualitative research techniques (focus group discussions and interviews) for gathering information that illustrate the diversity of crisis impacts within households and communities while supplementing the available quantitative data on the impacts of the crisis. All four rounds of the rapid assessment have been focused on the same channels   through which the impacts of the crisis are more likely to be transmitted including: the contraction in demand for labour in both formal and informal sectors of the economy; a cessation, reduction or growing unpredictability in the flow of remittances from family members working overseas (largely in Spain and Italy), and the particular impact of the crisis on children and their school participation. All fpur research rounds have followed the same methodology.

Documents

  1. Impacts of the International Economic Crisis in Romania 2009-2010 (2011)
    Authors: M.S. Stanculescu and M. Marin
    Overview Report of the Four Rounds' panel study based on qualitative methods

  2. Rapid Assessment of the Social and Poverty Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Romania (2011)
    Authors: Stanculescu, M.S., and M. Marin
    Final Report, Round 4, March 2011

  3. Executive Summary: Rapid Assessment of the Social and Poverty Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Romania (2011)
    Authors: Stanculescu, M.S., and M. Marin
    Executive Summary of the Final Report, Round 4, March 2011

  4. Rapid Assessment of the Social and Poverty Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Romania (2010)
    Authors: Stanculescu, M.S., and M. Marin
    Final Report, Round 3, July 2010

  5. Rapid Assessment of the Social and Poverty Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Romania (2009)
    Authors: Stanculescu, M.S., and M. Marin
    Final Report, Round 2, November 2009

  6. Rapid Assessment of the Social and Poverty Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Romania (2009)
    Authors: Stanculescu, M.S., and M. Marin
    Final Report, Round 1, June 2009

  7. Romania: Rapid Assessment of the Impact of Economic Crisis on Poverty (2009)
    Joint Note of UNICEF and the World Bank