The purpose of this paper is to provide new evidence on the determinants of poverty, a sensitive and challenging subject. Because Romania is considered to be one of the poorest countries of Europe, this research work examines its poverty phenomenon in depth, on its eight development regions, over the 2011 – 2022 time interval. Using data from National Institute of Statistics, our paper estimates simple and multiple regression models on panel data, focusing on the factors that influence Romanian poverty, finding out which are the most deprived areas and how one can act to eradicate it. The authors validate an indirect relationship between the poverty rate and economic prosperity, urbanization rate and Internet prevalence, and a direct relationship between poverty and unemployment rate, consumption rate and households with very low work intensity. Policy implications are drawn in order to reduce poverty.
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