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The analysis of the poverty level in Romania involves numerous aspects, from poverty of material means, to the lack of employment opportunities on a labor market characterized by an imbalance in supply (of jobs). In this context, the level of education could constitute the defining component for increasing the chances of reducing poverty, under the conditions of a functional economy, in which imbalances are reabsorbed in the short term, as a result of the mutations that occurred on the goods and services market, with consequences in terms of employment. Thus, the poverty level is accentuated, on the one hand, in the absence of specific behaviors, necessary for employment in conditions of economic efficiency, and, on the other hand, in the absence of the adoption by the population of sustainable consumption models, correlated with available income, susceptible to growth. In our vision, poverty becomes a societal variable determined by endogenous and exogenous factors. The propensity for unsustainable consumption, an effect of behavioral decisions, determines the poverty indicator of people whose precarious state occurred, not accidentally, based on irrational choices. Poverty induced by deprivations (material, non-material), is a variable resulting from political decisions that induce a state of precariousness through the lack of effectiveness of social services. Our work establishes an order relationship between societal factors that could reduce the impact of poverty by adopting sustainable consumption models, based on education, rationality in relation to choice, including at the level of the political act. By considering poverty as a societal variable, the means of alleviating poverty are rooted, from our perspective, in stimulating social policies to generate the effects that were assigned to them for their achievement, within the framework of government strategies. Thus, we consider poverty as an effect of the lack of effectiveness of the instruments with which government strategies operate or have operated within the Romanian economy. In essence, the paper structures the causes of poverty in Romania and identifies different ways of approaching social policies to reduce the deprivations generated by unsustainable societal models.
