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 …

Questions surrounding the fight against poverty and social exclusion have become a global priority. Poverty and its … includes prevention, mitigation and the management of social risks. The diverging causes of poverty across the European … reducing extreme poverty. Social risk management as a global strategy to combat poverty and extreme poverty is a challenge in …

The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation …. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income-based, consumption-based, or entitlement-based. The variation in the concept of … poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptually interrelated …