Chapter I: Trends in poverty in the 1990s Trends from 1990 to 1994 Changes in poverty in the last two years Features of urban poverty Poverty and occupational category Chapter II: Income distribution trends Changes in the first half of the 1990s Recent trends in earned income disparity Chapter II: The quality of employment, unemployment and the use of labour force Unemployment and underemployment in terms of hours worked The persisent nature of open urban unemployment Employed persons with insufficient incomes and compensatory overemployment The quality of jobs created Chapter IV: Social expenditure in the 1990s Trends in public social expenditure The level of public social expenditure Social priorities in public expenditure Social expenditure by sector Expenditure on educatiob Chapter V: The status of children: their leels of well-being and vulnerability Introduction Achievements with respect to children and social equity Determinants of child development Progress made towards achieving the goals for children The social equity dimension Children, poverty and risk factors Children who live in households with insufficient incomes and other deficiencies Child labour as a risk factor Chapter VI: Social agenda Introduction The labour situation and job creation programmes The labour situation Job creation programmes Anti-poverty programmes Social investment funds Social issues exercising public opinion in the region Employment Poverty Social (dis)integration The international social agenda