Measures of unemployment and poverty have tended to focus solely on those currently unemployed or below the poverty … of becoming unemployed or falling into poverty, our standard measures of unemployment and poverty do not accurately … line. This approach has ignored the members of society that are vulnerable to becoming unemployed or falling into poverty …

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 …