How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …

; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and …I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

The European Union's Lisbon strategy goal of tackling poverty was a notable failure, while the Europe 2020 strategy …'s poverty target is out of reach. Both strategies were based on variants of the 'at risk of poverty' indicator, which has an … cointegration evidence, that the 'at risk of poverty' indicator essentially measures income inequality, not poverty. Our …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

-ing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study is to re-examine theconcept of subjective poverty measurement and to …When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on theprevalence of poverty. In this paper, we … focus on subjective poverty, a conceptwhich has been largely neglected in literature, yet remains a conceptually appeal …

appealing way to define poverty. The primary goal of this study is to re-examine the concept of subjective poverty measurement …When developing anti-poverty policies, policymakers need accurate data on the prevalence of poverty. In this paper, we … focus on subjective poverty, a concept which has been largely neglected in the literature, though it remains a conceptually …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of … the population at high risk of chronic material deprivation and longitudinal poverty. Finally, each country's population …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … reporting, the EU-SILC data are of great international significance for comparative EU-wide measurement, description, and … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …