Tag: poverty

Let's feed the economies, not the landfills. This is the motto of the Food Bank Macedonia, which for 12 years has been fighting tirelessly against dumping food as waste and against hunger in North Macedonia. Meta.mk talked with Dushko Hristov, founder and general manager of this organization, during a period when they were preparing the monthly packages that are...

The unemployment is a longstanding problem for Romani women in North Macedonia. Only 4 Romani women are at managerial positions in the 142 monitored public institutions and at other, non-managerial positions, they are present with only 0.47% out of the total number of the employees. Out of 7 647 persons that had been using the active measures and employment...

Last year, the poverty rate in North Macedonia was 21.6% i.e. it declined by 0.3% compared to 2018, show the data provided by the State Statistical Office. Despite the poverty rate's continuous decline during 2019, 448 100 persons in Macedonia had been living below the threshold of poverty. 41.7% of the unemployed in the country were part of the...

All previous public opinion polls show that the majority of Macedonian citizens support Macedonia's membership in the European Union, and among the fundamental expectations of EU integration is the reduction of unemployment and poverty and improvement of the quality of life. Such expectations are logical, if we take into account the data on the employment rate, life expectancy and gross...

Bitola is one of the cities that suffers from the disease 'migration' which has spread all across Macedonia, said the opposition leader Zoran Zeav before meeting with citizens of Bitola. “This is evident in the lack of a quality workforce, we see this in the turnover of money our society makes. One part of the problem is because of the...