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 …

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 …

micro-oriented literature, known as 'pro-poor growth', seeks in particular to understand the impact of growth on poverty … poverty transiency. Several decompositions are proposed to measure the importance of each of these impacts of growth on the …

equilibrium concept for personal income distribution which is located in status theory and which can explain why a certain or …