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New Policy Brief by Orsolya Lelkes and Eszter Zólyomi, European Centre
for Social Welfare Policy and Research Vienna
"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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