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Romania SOCIAL CONDITIONS
The economic crisis of the late 1970s and the 1980s
imposed a
precipitous decline in social expenditures and social
services.
Between 1980 and 1985, annual outlays for housing
decreased by 37
percent, for health care by 17 percent, and for education,
culture,
and science by 53 percent. This dramatic decrease in
social
spending meant that in the 1980s Romanians lived in
conditions of
impoverishment akin to that experienced in the 1940s.
Data as of July 1989
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