Not all regions in Germany are affected by income poverty to the same extent and when attempting to identify areas … which are particularly prone to poverty, it is important to take regional price differentials into account. Applying the … yardstick of this purchasing power poverty reveals the larger cities to be particularly deprived areas. By contrast, the east …

relative income poverty) and specific deficits in the standard of living. As a result of the rise in prosperity between 1994 … based exclusively on relative income poverty would have incorrectly suggested an increase in the poverty rate. The Irish … European country to develop an anti-poverty strategy with a specific target. The poverty indicator developed for this purpose …