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 …

This study did an in-depth analysis of multidimensional poverty in rural and small towns in Ethiopia. As social well …-being or poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, using a multidimensional measure of poverty helps circumvent problems … surrounding the conventional measures of poverty and helps show clearly the realities of households. In this line, our analysis …

of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no … response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to … immigration. These heterogeneities suggest that understanding the relationship between immigration, poverty and demand for …

the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …. Without this information it is difficult to fight or mitigate poverty. The previous research focusing on i) regional aspects …

The main objective of the study is to analyze the most important determinants of monetary poverty (at macro-level) in … poverty or social exclusion over 23 percent of EU citizens can be considered poor. In this study a spatial Durbin model (SDM … part of the European Union. The at-risk-of-poverty rate (i.e. monetary poverty indicator) across western EU regions is the …