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Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to our Policy Brief January 2011 (1)
"Income Poverty in the EU. Situation in 2007 and Trends (based on
EU-SILC 2005-2008) " written by Orsolya Lelkes and Katrin Gasior.
Abstract:
The aim of this Policy Brief is to analyse the level of poverty and the
trends of poverty across the European Union.
The rate of poverty varies between 9% and 26% across EU Member States.
As the generally accepted EU definition of poverty is based on national
standards, people can be poor with rather different incomes in various
countries. We show the different monetary values of the poverty
threshold across countries. We find that poverty is deeper in countries
with higher rates of poverty, in other words, the poor tend to have
lower incomes compared to the poverty threshold value. In the period
between 2004 and 2007, overall poverty has declined in Ireland, Poland,
and Slovakia. In contrast, at-risk-of-poverty rates have increased in
Germany, Finland, Latvia, and Sweden. In the majority of countries there
has been no statistically significant change in the at-risk-of-poverty
rate over the past 4 years. We explored the robustness of our results by
the estimation of confidence intervals for the poverty rates, and the
use of alternative threshold values.
More: http://www.euro.centre.org/detail.php?xml_id=1845
Please feel free to forward the Policy Brief to colleagues who might be
interested.
Best regards,
Annette Hexelschneider, Dipl.-Ing.
Head of Knowledge and Information Management Support Unit
European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
(Affiliated to the United Nations)
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A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
Tel: +43-1-319 45 05-23
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