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European Perspectives on Poverty and Poor People

Perspectives on Poverty in Europe Following in Tony

This paper provides a number of perspectives on poverty in Europe, drawing heavily on the work of Tony Atkinson. The paper’s title refers to Europe rather than a set of specific countries. The distinction is important: the discourse on poverty within European countries has taken an increasingly Europe level dimension as the integration ...

Perspectives on poverty in Europe

Poverty in Europe (1998), based on Tony’s 1990 Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures, is an extensive review of how to measure poverty in Europe and assess differences across years and countries, the economics of poverty, and the political economy of anti poverty policy in Europe. The 2002 and 2007 books, joint

(PDF) European Union Definition of Poverty

This paper addresses the European Union's (EU) conceptual shift from a narrow income poverty perspective to a multidimensional approach that has explicitly been inspired by Amartya Sen's work.

Addressing poverty and inequality in Europe – Michael

Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, has published official figures on pan European poverty and inequality since 2005, in the form of the poverty rate and the S80 S20 ratio.The poverty rate is the proportion of the population which earns less than 60 per cent of median income; since this is a measure of relative rather than absolute poverty, it is also referred to as the at risk of poverty ...

Perspectives on Poverty in Europe

Downloadable! I address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and the future direction of EU level anti poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant – my perspectives are essentially elaborations ...