Thanks for posting this. Britain is ranked 6th worst out of 26
countries for risk of being in poverty.
David Fryer wrote:
> FYI
> David
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> *Subject:* [ENCP] Fwd: FYI: Policy Brief "Poverty Across Europe: The
> Latest Evidence Using the EU-SILC Dataset"
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> New Policy Brief by Orsolya Lelkes and Eszter Zólyomi, European Centre
> for Social Welfare Policy and Research Vienna
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> "Poverty Across Europe: The Latest Evidence Using the EU-SILC Dataset"
>
> Abstract:
> The rate of poverty varies between 10% and 23% in the countries of the
> European Union. Low levels of poverty characterize the Scandinavian
> countries, the so-called Corporatist countries (Austria, Germany), and
> the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia among the former Socialist
> countries. In contrast, the risk of poverty tends to be relatively
> high in the Mediterranean and the Baltic states. This Policy Brief
> discusses the sensitivity of these estimates to the measures used and
> explores the underlying patterns across the vulnerable groups and the
> likely causes of poverty in these countries.
>
> The results presented are part of a long-term research project
> completed within the European Observatory on the social situation,
> financed by the European Commission.
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> More: http://www.euro.centre.org/detail.php?xml_id=1372
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