The at-risk-of-poverty rate (AROP) is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 … poverty and social exclusion reduction target. Timeliness of this indicator is crucial for monitoring of the social situation …, estimates of the number of people at risk of poverty are published with a significant delay. This paper extends and updates …

and poverty in Turkey. Design/methodology/approach – There are voluminous studies in the literature and many of which …, there is a negative relationship between social expenditure and poverty, as expected. In the long run, however, there exists …, and the authors obtain a negative relationship between education expenditure and poverty, both in the short run and in the …

Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty …. A social welfare system dominated by pensions has not been able to prevent a steep hike in poverty among children and …, accompanied by support programmes for jobseekers, will provide a reliable safety net and reduce poverty. This Working Paper …

Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are … USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them …

The paper deals with poverty orderings when multidimensional attributes exhibit some degree of comparability. The paper … focuses on an important special case of this, that is, comparisons of poverty that make use of incomes at different time … on the relative marginal contributions of each temporal dimension to poverty. Inter alia, this involves drawing on …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … reporting, the EU-SILC data are of great international significance for comparative EU-wide measurement, description, and … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …

in society. Given this ideological shift, the Official poverty measure, which is based on the premise that all families …-size-specific threshold, appears to have less policy relevance now than in prior years. In this paper we present a new concept of poverty …, Self-Reliance poverty, which is based on the ability of a family, using its own resources, to support a level of …

both concept and measurement and it has advantages relative to both. Poverty rates using our basic measure are very close …We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on … the minimum bundle necessary to meet basic needs. Our measure differs from conventional income and consumption poverty in …