Reference budgets could play an important role in the work of measuring poverty and assessing income adequacy, and in …

This paper considers the measurement of poverty in the European Union (EU). Starting from a definition of poverty that …-Greer-Thorbecke class of poverty measures. Three key issues need to be addressed in the measurement of poverty. First, one has to determine … persons are considered to be poor. Third, it is necessary to outline an aggregation procedure to attain a poverty figure for …

poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural …

In European poverty research, poverty is usually measured with a poverty line defined as a percentage of the national … differences. Therefore, in this paper we document recent trends in national and EU-wide income poverty dynamics. We analyse to … what extent household incomes have converged in the EU and how this has impacted upon poverty dynamics using both national …

contributed to a number of positive outcomes, such as low poverty and high employment. However, our examination of more recent …

countries. How effective are these programs at reducing poverty and increasing employment? The US and UK experience suggests … decreasing relative poverty rates. Quite a few other affluent nations have done as well as or better than the UK and the US in …

living in households with low, or very low, work intensity which is part of the Europe 2020 target set to reduce poverty and …

Poverty indicators often disagree about whether a person is poor or not. Yet, when it comes to assessing whether a … program is successful in reaching the poor the dominant practice is to use an income poverty indicator. This paper …