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 …

new dataset is used to estimate a measure of energy poverty (EP) that is not conditioned by household preferences. The new … measure identifies households suffering from EP as those that become “poor” – according to Istat's relative poverty measure … threshold could be used as part of Istat's revised absolute poverty measure. This also contributes to the monitoring and …

English Abstract: Some significant stages characterise the debate on poverty in Italy over the last seventy years: the … Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and the Means to Combat It in the early 1950s; the long period of the Poverty … institutionalisation of the measure of poverty in official statistics and the political process, both national and international. The …

, it commits to a specific poverty reduction target and pays explicit attention to issues related to inequality. First, the … message is that if income inequality remains constant, the target of poverty eradication can be only be reached if there are … estrema al di sotto del 3 per cento entro il 2030 (poverty eradication) e accrescere il reddito medio della popolazione al di …

there is no official definition of energy poverty (EP). The purpose of this study is to provide the reader with a set of … indicators to fill this gap. We present a range of poverty measures which estimate that between 5 and 20 per cent of households …