to clarify the distinction between income poverty and economic vulnerability. We then proceed to consider the … prospects. Our analysis is then extended to compare patterns of risk for poverty and vulnerability in relation to key socio …-economic groups. Finally, we will consider the relationship between poverty and vulnerability and scale and form of welfare dependence …

based income poverty measures in the context of EU-enlargement, the relative merits of one dimensional versus … multidimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion and the continuing relevance of class based explanations of life chances …. Identifying economically vulnerable groups we find that, contrary to the situation with national income poverty measures, levels …