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 …

One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes … three indicators to calculate it: people at risk-of-poverty after social transfers (persons are at risk of poverty if their …

Prevailing measures on the topics of monetary and non-monetary poverty-as well as economic and carbon inequality … poverty headcount ratio and the indices poverty gap, poverty severity, and Watts are assessed as core poverty indices. On the … detrimental ramifications on human wellbeing and disturbs public provision policies. Thus, poverty, inequality, and social …