As part of its 2020 Strategy adopted, the EU has set a number of headline targets including one for poverty and social … multidimensional indicator is seriously undermined. In relation to the measurement of deprivation, the development of this target was … generally recognised to be less than satisfactory. More recently the introduction of a special module on material deprivation as …

deprivation of the type used in recent studies of poverty at household level to measure differences between spouses in a large … develop more sensitive indicators of deprivation designed to measure individual living standards and poverty status, which can …Conventional methods of analysis of poverty assume resources are shared so that each individual in a household or …

recent economic research on the welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries, and explore their implications. We … begin with the conceptualisation and measurement of poverty, before sketching out some core features and approaches to the … welfare state and anti-poverty policies. We then focus on the central plank of the modern welfare state's efforts to address …

poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …