The European Union coordinates and encourages Member State actions to combat poverty, and to reform their social … in poverty reduction than others. What can explain these variations in effectiveness? This paper analyses the … effectiveness of welfare state policies and especially social transfers in EU-countries in alleviating poverty. To indicate whether …

The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the … contents of the recent 3rd Poverty and Wealth Report. We also explain why the extension of the Capability Approach from poverty …

sensitive to the selection of particular concepts of resources, equivalence scales and poverty lines. This article aims to … examine the robustness of the results of poverty analysis to the use of alternative concepts of resources (consumption …) equivalence scales (subjective, experts' and food-scales) and poverty lines (fractions of the mean of the respective distribution …