external assistance to accelerate reconstruction efforts. This report explores the links between disaster impacts and poverty …

, encompassing employment, innovation, education, poverty and social inclusion, and climate/energy. An overarching goal of the Europe … each of the EU Member States. The European council used three measures of poverty and social exclusion: at risk of poverty … rate, a measure of relative poverty defined as the percent of the population with incomes less than 60 percent of the …