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 …

with the universal issues of poverty and resource constraints. This research tries to find out the extent of … multidimensional poverty and its determinants among Christian community living in the slums of the Lahore city of Pakistan, after … examines the relationship between marginality and poverty in a systematic manner and investigates the multidimensional poverty …

Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …-working economists. The Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures overlapping multiple deprivations that people face …