The commonly used poverty gap measure is extended to derive and analyse the properties of a poverty burden measure to … address the question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The … resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the non …

How should relative poverty be defined and measured in a European Union where there are substantial variations in … suggests that Europe-wide comparisons are more important to the perception of poverty than the convention of national relative … poverty lines would have led us to expect. Even relative poverty is more prevalent in the new low-income (eastern) countries …