poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …One of the targets of Europe's growth strategy (Europe 2020) is "reduction of poverty by aiming to lift at least 20 … million people out of the risk of poverty or social exclusion". Since poverty is a multidimensional concept, EUROSTAT proposes …

multidimensional poverty index for Germany that is based on the capability approach. It also introduces a multidimensional happiness … Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (GCSPI). …The official measure to analyse poverty in Germany is the at-risk-of-poverty rate, defined as 60 per cent of the median …

According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … the new property, it then proceeds to derive a new class of inequality-sensitive poverty measures whose advantages are …