Socio-Economic Effects of Public Investments for Roma Inclusion in Kavarna - Alexandrova, Yva; Ivanova, Slavyanka; Ivanova, Anna (Centăr za izsledvane na demokracijata, 2015)
The aim of the current report is to provide new data and insight on the social and economic effects of public investments in Roma communities from a human development perspective.Its objective is to establish the effects of a wide range of public investments made by Kavarna municipality in the mostly-Roma neighbourhood of Hadji Dimitar, between 2004 and 2014. The investment covered areas such as housing and infrastructure, healthcare, employment, income, poverty and social exclusion, justice and crime, and political participation. It reviews a range of indicators with the aim of establishing the effects of these investments on the social and economic development of the neighbourhood and its residents, both Roma and non-Roma. It also looks beyond the neighbourhood to provide a comparative perspective on a national level.The data presented here is derived from a variety of sources and covers a range of indicators.