multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion, increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty …. Contrary to the situation with national income poverty measures, levels of economic vulnerability vary systematically across … experience of poverty and social exclusion in an enlarged European Union. The most effective strategy may be to take more …

extent to which the measures currently employed as national indicators of poverty and social exclusion succeed in capturing … ability increasing sharply as one moves from 'at risk of poverty' to consistent poverty and finally economic vulnerability …

-tax income (distribution, composition, demographic structure, etc.). We conduct this exercise for a battery of poverty and …

In this paper we seek to put Irish poverty rates in a comparative European context. We do so in a context whereby the … EU 'at risk of poverty' indicator. Our comparative analysis reports findings for both overall levels of poverty and … variation by household reference person characteristics for this indicator and a consistent poverty measure for Ireland, the UK …

model has two potential poverty traps - a climate-change-induced one and a civil-war-induced one - and the two poverty traps … Africa in deep poverty with a high probability. Other countries enjoy exponential growth; and some countries may either be … trapped in poverty or experience rapid growth. The SRES scenarios were wrong to ignore the impact of climate change and civil …

This paper provides updated estimates for the scale of fuel poverty in the Republic of Ireland using two measures: one … results as to the characteristics of households most vulnerable to fuel poverty, examines the potential effects of future fuel …

regime and socio-economic differences in poverty levels and patterns and variation in the consequences of poverty for … economic stress can assist us in making informed choices between alternative poverty indicators. Poverty in the EU is normally … critique takes as its starting point the fact that low income is an unreliable indicator of poverty. In this paper we seek to …

Small area poverty estimates are important for social and economic policy, however the required data are often … estimates of small area poverty rates, subject to fewer restrictive assumptions than existing methods. We present a theoretical … derivation followed by a numerical validation. Using Mexican data, CMC replicates small area poverty rates with precision …