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Human Development Index (HDI) is calculated as a combined index of three indicators: the expected life expectancy, purchasing power and expected education. These three indicators can adequately represent the development of the country because the longer life expectancy of a population implies a better health condition, resulting in better psychophysical abilities or greater human vitality. The purchasing power of the population indirectly expresses the level of satisfaction of the needs, and thus the satisfaction ...

The objective of this paper is to determine the tendencies of poverty in the Republic of Croatia and the EU counties. The methodology included the measurement of poverty with the official EU poverty line. Material deprivation rate used by EU Member States is also used in the paper. Regression analysis (OLS method) was used to establish to what extent poverty risk rate can be reduced by increase in income. The main research result indicates that poverty in Croatia is increasing. Its increase has been particularly p...