symptoms of human poverty. This implies obstacles in gaining full and free access to education, professional health care …, finance, or i.e. labor market, resulting in substantial lack of skills, capabilities and functionings (see Sen 1986). All … development of countries. The aim of the analysis is to identify the magnitude of socio-economic deprivation (human poverty) and …

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 …