We measure area-specific human poverty in the European Union (EU) at the second level of the nomenclature of … territorial units for statistics (NUTS 2). We construct a regional human poverty index (RHPI), which comprises four dimensions … regarding the relative standing of a given country with respect to its level of poverty and shows the variability of poverty …

The problem of poverty, both in theory and practice, gained a new meaning with the beginning of the transformation of … evaluating anti‑poverty programs should be preceded by identifying who is considered poor. Defining poverty is the first and a … key step in measuring its characteristics, e.g., its intensity. Hence, the choice of a specific definition of poverty is …