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 …

Proponents of the income-based approach to poverty rarely contest the fact that poverty is actually a multidimensional … phenomenon. What they claim is that economic resources provide a sufficiently precise proxy for whatever dimensions poverty might … have. The indirect assumption is that all dimensions of poverty are highly correlated and thus can be substituted by just …