well below the EU at-risk-of-poverty thresholds in many countries. Single earners with dependent children are especially at … risk of poverty. We discuss the options for making progress. …

dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock … analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately understood as a dynamic, with the majority of people flowing in and out … of poverty for short durations. Distinguishing between structural and transitory poverty gives rise to a focus on the …

withdraw income from low-income families, with potential implications for child poverty. …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …

Poverty maps are a useful tool for the targeting of social programs on areas with high concentrations of poverty …. However, a static focus on poverty ignores the temporal dimension of poverty. Thus, current nonpoor households still face … substantial welfare volatility and are at risk of becoming poor in the face of shocks. We combine the methods of poverty mapping …