multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion, increasing concerns about reliance on nationally based income poverty …. Contrary to the situation with national income poverty measures, levels of economic vulnerability vary systematically across … experience of poverty and social exclusion in an enlarged European Union. The most effective strategy may be to take more …

extent to which the measures currently employed as national indicators of poverty and social exclusion succeed in capturing … ability increasing sharply as one moves from 'at risk of poverty' to consistent poverty and finally economic vulnerability …

regime and socio-economic differences in poverty levels and patterns and variation in the consequences of poverty for … economic stress can assist us in making informed choices between alternative poverty indicators. Poverty in the EU is normally … critique takes as its starting point the fact that low income is an unreliable indicator of poverty. In this paper we seek to …

In this paper we seek to put Irish poverty rates in a comparative European context. We do so in a context whereby the … EU ‘at risk of poverty’ indicator. Our comparative analysis reports findings for both overall levels of poverty and … variation by household reference person characteristics for this indicator and a consistent poverty measure for Ireland, the UK …

Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in order to develop a measure of consistent poverty that overcomes some of the difficulties … associated with the original indicators employed as targets in the Irish National Anti-Poverty Strategy. Our analysis leads us to … accumulated evidence supports the view that a revised consistent poverty measure that combines a threshold of two or more economic …

, have focused unduly on relative income poverty measures. Here, employing a multidimensional perspective that encompasses …

In this paper we consider the consequences for measurement of material deprivation, consistent poverty and economic … poverty ; material deprivation ; multidimensionality ; consistent poverty ; economic strain ; economic stress …