Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … phenomenon. What they claim is that economic resources provide a sufficiently precise proxy for whatever dimensions poverty might … have. The indirect assumption is that all dimensions of poverty are highly correlated and thus can be substituted by just …

push into poverty. In Europe, the UK has spearheaded the definition and measurement of such phenomena. The most common way …Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a … challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment …