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 …

Prevailing measures on the topics of monetary and non-monetary poverty-as well as economic and carbon inequality … poverty headcount ratio and the indices poverty gap, poverty severity, and Watts are assessed as core poverty indices. On the … detrimental ramifications on human wellbeing and disturbs public provision policies. Thus, poverty, inequality, and social …

poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …