Publication

This issue brief discusses how social exclusion can be measured from two different approaches – the economic growth approach of the EU and the sustainable development approach of the UNDP. This study, the UNDPs Regional Human Development Report on the situation of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe proposes the inclusion of a number of other qualitative indicators not considered by the EU approach. It asks whether the common indicators used to quantify the more general concept of social exclusion will 'travel well' when applied to its narrower dimension of economic exclusion, especially in empirical research related to disadvantaged groups such as historical ethnic minorities.