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Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis on Vulnerable Groups in Romania: Social Policy Responses

In: Crisis after the Crisis: Economic Development in the New Normal

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  • Elena Zamfir

    (Research Institute for Quality of Life
    Princeton University
    Springer Heidelberg)

Abstract

In Romania, in just 2 years, the pandemic crisis manifested as an atypical multiple system crisis severely affecting the most important sectors of the society. It also brought visible changes in the profile of the quality of life. The new profile of the quality of life turned into a major concern of the socio-humane sciences from a pluri- and interdisciplinary perspective. Current research is faced with a set of new issues that changed the classic paradigm for the quality of life. How the quality of life will be affected in its main objective and subjective dimensions remains, however, an open question. The study aims to evaluate the changes that occurred in Romania over the COVID-19 pandemic on a socioeconomic level and in the individual lifestyle as major dimensions of the quality of life. They also make the object of public social policies. Therefore, in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis, the issues identified as generating major changes in the profile of the quality of life, emerge as challenges in designing public social policies. Unfortunately, the efficiency of the post-December public social policies places Romania on one of the last positions in the hierarchy of EU member-states. The present paper underlines the main reasons leading to this state of affairs and from where the state should start in bringing possible solutions for the post-pandemic stage.

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  • Elena Zamfir, 2023. "Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis on Vulnerable Groups in Romania: Social Policy Responses," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: Luminita Chivu & Ignacio De Los Ríos Carmenado & Jean Vasile Andrei (ed.), Crisis after the Crisis: Economic Development in the New Normal, chapter 0, pages 215-232, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-3-031-30996-0_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30996-0_16
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