I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

The persistent at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the EU's 11 primary indicators of social inclusion but it has received … little attention compared to the current at-risk-of-poverty rate. Using the 2008 EU Statistics on Income and Living … Conditions (EU-SILC) database, we compare persistent income poverty rates across European nations and examine differences in …

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators … drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data. Using a prototypical model of poverty dynamics, we explain how the … near-linear relationship arises and show how the model can be used to predict persistent poverty rates from current poverty …