Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment … push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …

different distributions.To circumvent the above limitations, this paper proposes a new index which can make comparison between … any groups with different income level, for example, the richest group and the poorest group. The new index provides … different values for different distributions and different parts of any distributions. The new index satisfies the axioms of …

poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes …