This chapter discusses the measurement of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Latin America, and documents the … main patterns and trends. By providing an updated assessment of the level, changes and characteristics of poverty in the …

European country to develop an anti-poverty strategy with a specific target. The poverty indicator developed for this purpose … used a definition of poverty in line with that proposed by the EU, reflecting both scarcity of resources (measured as … relative income poverty) and specific deficits in the standard of living. As a result of the rise in prosperity between 1994 …

Not all regions in Germany are affected by income poverty to the same extent and when attempting to identify areas … which are particularly prone to poverty, it is important to take regional price differentials into account. Applying the … yardstick of this purchasing power poverty reveals the larger cities to be particularly deprived areas. By contrast, the east …

exclusion can be estimated by establishing how common or deep poverty is among the employed and the unemployed. This is the … respect. The fact that poverty is equally common or rare among the unemployed and the employed can be due to many factors …. Small differences may be due to income transfers that effectively combat poverty even in the absence of income from work. On …

Although the poverty rates among solo mothers vary a lot between countries there is one common feature: solo mothers … perform worse in terms of financial resources compared to married or cohabiting mothers. Even in countries with low poverty …. It is interesting to ask the question why? Again referring to a cross national setting we see that poverty rates vary …

allow children to escape from poverty? This is the question we try to answer in this comparative study. The objective is … therefore not so much to carry out a diagnosis of the financial poverty of children as to evaluate the effect, in terms of …

security, poverty and social exclusion have not been eradicated. The persistence of income poverty in industrialized welfare … states casts serious doubt on the effectiveness of social security schemes in alleviating poverty. This paper explores the … poverty-alleviating power of social security in a comparative perspective on the basis of house-hold micro-data from the …

We analyze the impact of the state on the incidence of poverty in the working-age population of 14 advanced capitalist … democracies between 1970 and 1997 using an unbalanced panel design. We utilize poverty measures based on micro-level data from the … that economic factors including de-industrialization and unemployment largely explain pre-tax, pre-transfer poverty rates …