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 …

, new threats such as organized crime, trafficking, civil unrest and terrorism have supplemented continued pre … arising from international organized crime and global economic instability. Thus, a fundamental rethink is needed on the …

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 …

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

US poverty is much higher than poverty in Europe when a relative poverty measure is used. Using an absolute poverty … measurement method, the picture looks different: poverty in some European countries is higher. This paper estimates poverty rates … for all the countries of the (old) EU and the USA applying the official measurement methods of the United States (absolute …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …