According to data from the World Economic Forum's report in 2019, Serbia is ranked 72nd among 141 countries, with a recorded GCI value of 60.9. The achieved value of GCI this year is unchanged compared to the previous year, but due to the progress made by other economies (South Africa, Croatia, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Brazil and Jordan), Serbia's relative position in the rankings has... Read more
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15.10.2019
22.03.2019
On Friday, March 22, 2019, at 11.00 in the Faculty of Economics, a promotion of the new issue of Quartaly Monitor - QM55 was held. During the promotion, guests were addressed by Milojko Arsić, Editor-in-Chief of the Quarter Monitor as well as authors of QM texts. Read more
12.02.2019
There is a difference in wages between men and women in Serbia, and data show that women, although they have the same level of education and years of work experience, earn about 12% less than men, said the director of the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN) Jelena Žarković Rakić, at the conference "Gender inequality on the labor market" held on February 11th at UN House in Belgrade... Read more
23.10.2018
The conference entitled "Inequality and Social Protection in South East Europe" was held on October 22, 2018 at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade. The workshop was opened by Sasa Randjelovic, vice-dean for finance and international cooperation of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade, Jelena Zarkovic, director of the Foundation for the Advancement of... Read more
17.09.2018
Foundation for the Advancement of Economics - FREN invites you to the Workshop on “Inequality and Social Protection in South East Europe”, which will be held on 22 October at the Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade. The workshop is organized by the International Inequalities Institute, the London School of Economics - LSE in collaboration with the LSEE Research Network on Social... Read more
19.03.2018
Promotion of the book "Women and Work - Towards a Political Economy of Transition" by Sonja Avlijaš was held on Thursday, 23 March 2018 in the Professors' Hall at the Faculty of Economics. Prof. Dr Jelena Žarković Rakić, prof. Dr Mihail Arandarenko, prof. Dr Radovan Pejanović, editor Bora Babić and the author spoke about the book. Sonja Avlijaš is a researcher at the Laboratory for ... Read more
26.02.2018
Belgrade, 22.02.2018. The goal of the panel discussion, titled "How equal and equitable is health care in Serbia?", organized by FREN and SeConS to mark the 4th edition on the Monitoring Social Situation in Serbia (MONS) web platform, was to present latest data and to open for debate main issues related to health and health care in Serbia. The panellists, Prof. Slobodan Cvejić, PhD,... Read more
26.12.2017
11.12.2017. ANALYSING INCOME INEQUALITY IN SERBIA: FROM DATA TO POLICY. The study titled "Analyzing Income Inequality in Serbia: From Data to Policy" was presented today in the event Social Dialogue Forum - Income Inequality in Serbia, organized by the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia and Nezavisnost TUC in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Inequality in the... Read more
07.12.2017
04-05.12.2017. Within the scientific conference "Economy: Employment and Labour in the 21st Century", organized by the Serbian Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Belgrade, FREN associates presented analyzes of labor market institutions and policies in Serbia, with special emphasis on the position of young people and women. A minister without portfolio in charge... Read more
20.11.2017
Serbia’s public debt and fiscal deficit are lower than projected in the original program agreement between the IMF and the Government of Serbia. Moreover, fiscal restraints have not significantly hampered economic growth over the past three years of program duration. Instead, economic growth has exceeded IMF’s projections at the onset of the implementation of fiscal consolidation measures. This... Read more
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Today's presentation of the new online platform for Monitoring Social Situation in Serbia MONS (www.mons.rs) highlighted that the great increase in inequality has negative consequences on economic growth and stability of the society.
To reduce the gap between the rich and the poor in Serbia, it is necessary to improve the policies that contribute to higher employability, such as education policy, lifelong learning and active employment policies. This was presented today at the presentation of a new online platform "Monitoring of the Social Situation in Serbia" (MONS).
Social enterprises, in addition to realization of their economic function through the sale of products and services on the market, have an important social role to contribute to solving social issues. This was concluded at a conference organized by the Foundation for the Advancement of Economics FREN.
