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 …

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 …

symptoms of human poverty. This implies obstacles in gaining full and free access to education, professional health care … development of countries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the magnitude of socio-economic deprivation (human poverty) and …

to children in theUS, I discuss various features of US society and institutions includingthe measurement of poverty …

differences, forexample, the importance of neighbourhood and ‘service poverty’, andthe need for action against aspects of social …

This paper deals with concepts of multidimensional poverty measurement and applies them to Germany. Three concepts of … poverty are examined and included into one multidimensional approach: economic well being, capability and social exclusion …, and the influence of changing levels of substitutability between achievements on the poverty dimensions is examined. It …

This paper presents results from one of the first independent socioeconomic household surveys to study urban poverty … among Saudi nationals. This survey was administered to 496 Saudi households in Dammam in 2019. Poverty is conceptualised as … relative poverty, which is based on the country’s inflation adjusted national poverty line of $6 per person per day. The …

high degree of social exclusion and multidimensional poverty in the State of Veracruz. In the study area, the 542 … indigenous women benefited in POPMI, presented a condition of multidimensional poverty and a degree of social exclusion: very … multidimensional poverty and very high, medium and high levels of social exclusion have been excluded in the coverage of POPMI …