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1 Introduction
Poverty and fight against poverty are in the middle of recent debates among
researchers, decision makers and investors. The phenomenon exists in all the
countries and societies and presents multiple dimensions comprising both
monetary and non-monetary aspects of individuals wellbeing, such as:
• precarious health;
Figure 1: Variables position on the first two factorial axis (Source: Output
obtained in SPSS with PCA)
7 Conclusions
Though the clusters obtained are homogenous within them, they differ among
them as regards the affected dimensions of poverty and the intensity of the
phenomenon. Therefore, it is not efficient to elaborate a unique program for
poverty alleviation that would be suitable for the entire country. Accord-
ing to each clusters profile there could be designed and developed specific
poverty alleviation programs that take into account poverty intensity in each
considered dimension. To the clusters that present deprivations in health di-
mension of poverty, it should be designed and applied appropriate programs
to improve the access to health services (encouragement of the medical stuff
to develop their activity in the affected areas, allocation of resources for the
construction of new hospitals and the extension of the existing ones in these
areas). For clusters with low level of investments and GDP, the companies
may be stimulated, by getting facilities, to invest in problematic areas, so
as to create new jobs and new perspectives of economic development. The
programs that focus on infrastructure development can target the groups of
counties characterized by low sustainable access to running water and sew-
erage correlated with high percentage of rural population and of population
employed in agriculture.
Identifying the poverty profile at territorial level, may be of a real utility
in designing poverty reduction programs and policies as it permits to detect
the most poverty affected areas and the povertys specific in these areas and
help the policy-makers to target the poor for the best resource allocation
to alleviate poverty. The results obtained in such a study may be used
for the elaboration of poverty alleviation programs specific to each group
of homogenous counties.
References
[1] Anderberg, M. R. (1973), Cluster Analysis for applications, Academic
Press, New York
[2] Arcia, G. (1999), Proyecto de la red de protección social: focalización de
la fase piloto, Washington DC, Inter-American Development Bank
[3] Boccanfuso, D. (2004), A conceptual framework for approaches to poverty,
Workshop, Dakar-Senegal, February 18–20, 2004
40 Alina Măriuca Ionescu
E-mail : alina.ionescu@yahoo.com