USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …

Financial poverty indicators still play an important role in policymaking and evaluation. Countries such as the USA and … the EU member states use one or several ‘official’ poverty indicators on which success of poverty reduction policy is … regularly monitored. Whereas the US poverty indicator is based on an absolute concept of poverty, the EU Laeken indicator is …

policy objectives on a conceptual and empirical basis. Its focus is on start-ups out of unemployment. Implications for the …

. We argue that analysis of subjective wellbeing can be used to enrich and validate the process of poverty analysis in the …

by their family members, but by highlighting their human, social and cultural capital. It is necessary to create …

This paper has four main objectives: (1) to monitor the rise of poverty and income inequality during the first decade … of Russian transition; (2 to analyze the performance of the welfare state in reducing poverty and income inequality; (3 … reducing poverty among people in need. This study has also highlighted how the Russian society is now slowly acquiring those …