on housing, utilities, food, and transport: economic poverty is a lack of freedom due to budgetary constraints. We … of food consumption for households below the food poverty line is startlingly low for families with children, and …

second part of a research on regional inequalities in income distribution. Poverty tends to be a multi-dimensional concept …

The fall in employment and the increase in unemployment rates in Italy in 2009 were fairly modest, given the sharp drop … caution, however. Firstly, employment trends as measured by Italian labour force survey may understate the decline in total … employment if, as seems plausible, a lag exists between the entry of immigrants into the country and their registration. Secondly …