On January 1st the new law on welfare benefits came into force amidst controversy. It introduces a compulsory requirement that receivers of benefits must work for the village or town they live in for 32 ...
The year 2013 was a nightmare for the labour market in Slovakia due to slow economic growth, tax hikes and complicated legislation that made companies think twice before opening new positions.Unemployment ...
The saying goes that good health is priceless but how to achieve and maintain it can be trickier than someone might think, especially when it comes to the inhabitants of poor marginalized communities. ...
An ageing population, whole districts that risk being depopulated and two big urban areas with infrastructure under pressure because it hasn’t been modernized and can’t really cope with the influx of economic ...
On Saturday the inhabitants of five of Slovakia’s self-governing regions chose their heads, or so called župans, in a second round of voting which featured the two candidates who collected the most votes ...
A report on financial literacy in Slovak schools presented by the Education Minister last week concluded that primary and secondary school teachers should spend more time talking about finance with their ...
The progress that Slovakia‘s eight administrative regions have done in the past 5 years has been the topic of interest of a team of researchers from the Economic University in Bratislava led by Stefan ...
On November 9th, Slovaks and foreigners residing in Slovakia will choose the heads of this country’s 8 administrative regions-the so called župan, and the representatives in their councils. These regions ...
After the fall of the communism in 1989 Czechoslovakia and then Slovakia found themselves labelled as emerging markets, which translated from economic jargon means an economy which is in the process of ...
Twenty years ago the United Nations declared October 17th „The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty“ . Poverty is defined in many ways depending on the organisation that deals with it, and ...
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