This paper aims to analyze the responsiveness of different dimensions of multidimensional poverty to economic growth in the New Member States, from 2000 to 2011. The inclusiveness of economic growth is analyzed by a set of growth elasticity to different poverty measures. The common determinants...

This paper analyzes the process of real economic convergence in the New Member States, by using non-parametric methods, e.g. the ash-warping test, kernel density estimation and stochastic kernel. The main findings of the paper are the bimodality of income density distribution over time and...