poverty among mothers after childbirth and divorce/separation. The analysis was carried out for twelve EU countries, which …. Countries with low post-childbirth poverty include those with an explicit pro-natalist orientation and socio-democratic regimes …. High post-childbirth poverty rates are found in pro-traditional and South European conservative countries, and especially …

This paper applies the Alkire and Foster (2011) index of multidimensional poverty to German data. This is done with … respect to the politically most important dimensions of poverty mentioned in the German federal government's report on poverty …

when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects analysed are outcomes, i.e. the prevalence of poverty and the … poverty reduction effectiveness. To analyse outcomes the LIS data are used. Six different countries are included into … comparison. The findings show that the countries vary to a large extent in their effectiveness of reducing poverty. Further, they …