Poverty and inequality in contemporary Portugal

Impact of the austerity policies and lessons for the future

Bibliographic Data

ID21421684
AuthorsAlcides Monteiro (0000-0002-4546-383X, University of Beira Interior (UBI), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL), Covilhã, Portugal, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume54
Issue4
Pages3-22
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocioloski pregled (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0085-6320 • E-ISSN: 2560-4880
PublisherCentre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5937/socpreg54-25869
OpenAlexW3024250038
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

In the European Union, Portugal is one of the countries with the highest levels of poverty and inequality. This is the reality that this article focuses on. The text provides statistical data that illustrate the evolution of poverty and income inequalities over the last decade (2011-2019), serving as a basis for a critical analysis of the consequences of economic cycles on it. In particular, how the combination of the economy (financial crisis), politics (austerity plan) and social context (low social contestation) has interfered with its worsening over the period 2011-2014. From this analysis, we develop the argument that if the negative alliance of the three factors makes a country poorer and more unequal, it is in turn the positive combination of the same factors that could lead to important advances in the fight against poverty and social inequality

Alliance · Argument (complex analysis) · Austerity · Basic needs · Context (archaeology) · Culture of poverty · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Geography · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Social inequality · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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