Poverty is a frequent topic in the media and in politics, but the definition of poverty is not satisfactory. The … European Commission's poverty of risk concept ignores social and regional income discrepancies, assets are disregarded, and … real poverty is not defined. Other definitions show that poverty is difficult to grasp in practice. There are also …

Poverty is a frequent topic in the media and in politics, but the definition of poverty is not satisfactory. The … European Commission’s poverty of risk concept ignores social and regional income discrepancies, assets are disregarded, and … real poverty is not defined. Other definitions show that poverty is difficult to grasp in practice. There are also …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increasing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2007, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …

should be granted a similar exemption in order to target elderly poverty effectively-which the basic pension does not do. …