-level returns of the Irish Poor Inquiry and use these to explain the co-variates of increasing poverty in the early nineteenth … increasing poverty, with the poor becoming poorer. However, it is levels, not changes, of poverty which are found to be a key … waterway. The paper also fails to find evidence of increasing poverty or famine severity being a result of overpopulation. …

I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades …; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and … the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant - my perspectives are …

A key question in the design of anti-poverty programs is to what extent they should be targeted. Empirical evaluations … based on an imperfect poverty classifier based on proxy means tests results in very distinct 'optimal' beneficiary shares … when these measures are used as a decision criterion. Implications from poverty simulations are sensitive to assumptions …