{"id":397,"date":"2026-06-30T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.journals.utgjiu.ro\/JES\/?post_type=articol&#038;p=397"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:53:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:53:03","slug":"statistical-study-on-the-correlation-between-environmental-protection-expenditure-and-at-risk-of-poverty-rate-in-the-european-union-romania-and-bulgaria-2015-2024","status":"publish","type":"articol","link":"https:\/\/www.journals.utgjiu.ro\/JES\/articol\/statistical-study-on-the-correlation-between-environmental-protection-expenditure-and-at-risk-of-poverty-rate-in-the-european-union-romania-and-bulgaria-2015-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"STATISTICAL STUDY ON THE CORRELATION BETWEEN \u201dENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION EXPENDITURE\u201d AND \u201dAT RISK OF POVERTY RATE\u201d IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, ROMANIA AND BULGARIA, 2015-2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through this paper we wanted to evaluate to what extent the efforts that society makes to improve environmental conditions are reflected in the well-being of the population. We put two indicators into the equation:<br \/>\n\u201dNational expenditure on environmental protection\u201d and \u201dAt-risk-of-poverty rate\u201d. \u201cNational expenditure on environmental protection\u201d is the resources allocated to limit or remove the negative effects of economic activities.<br \/>\nExpenditure on environmental protection includes the amounts of money allocated by various entities (government, companies or households) to reduce pollution (of any nature: air, water, soil), waste and wastewater management, protection of biodiversity, etc. The \u201cat-risk-of-poverty rate\u201d is an important indicator for assessing the well-being of a country\u2019s population. This article analyses the correlation between these indicators in the European Union, Romania<br \/>\nand Bulgaria, in the period 2015-2024. In principle, financial efforts to protect the environment should have beneficial effects, i.e. contribute to poverty reduction. The calculations showed that there is an inverse relationship between the<br \/>\ntwo indicators, that is, as environmental protection spending increases, there is a reduction in the risk of poverty, and vice versa (when environmental protection spending decreases, there is an increase in the risk of poverty), but this<br \/>\ninfluence is quite small. There are, however, differences between the territorial units studied, in the sense that at the EU27 level the link is very weak, in Bulgaria it is weak, and in Romania it is of medium intensity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"class_list":["post-397","articol","type-articol","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journals.utgjiu.ro\/JES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articol\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journals.utgjiu.ro\/JES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articol"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journals.utgjiu.ro\/JES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articol"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.journals.utgjiu.ro\/JES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}