reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …

This paper provides an overview of poverty in North America. In it we look at the three countries of North America …, Mexico, the US, and to a lesser extent Canada and attempt to both describe poverty as it exists in the three countries and … explore some of the correlates of poverty. In doing so, we attempt to bring together the concepts and approaches used mostly …

The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …

The starting point in the paper is the relative concept of poverty. We will study how our picture of poverty will … change if we accept a very relative concept of poverty. The first problem we encountered was the selection of the benchmark …. A couple of alternative ways to conduct relativizations were selected. First, we applied the conventional poverty …

and researchers have made in the comparative study of subnational poverty and income inequality. Finally, we conclude with … a brief presentation of the most recent poverty rates for German Länder and Italian Regions derived from the LIS. It is …

as employment, low pay, social transfers and poverty. This paper presents basic empirical evidence on the validity of … (wage compression) and employment performance, or between employment performance and poverty. Instead we find a strong and … positive cross-country correlation between the incidence of low pay and the incidence of relative poverty, and we also find a …

each member country on the basis of national indicators; EU-wide estimates of inequality and poverty play no role. Yet this … methodological requirements of this evaluative exercise, and provides the first estimates of inequality and poverty in the enlarged …