Using newly-available data on all 27 EU member states, this book combines a focus on multidimensionality with a comparative approach to survey the role ofnon-monetary indicators of deprivation. It shows how poverty varies across countries and over time, who is affected, and which groups should be targeted inframing anti-poverty strategies. Research on poverty in rich countries reliesprimarily on household income to capture living standards and distinguish those in poverty, and this is also true of official poverty measurement and monitoring. However, awareness of the limitations of income has been heightening interest in the role that non-monetary measures of deprivation can play. This book takes as its starting-point that research on poverty and social exclusion has been undergoing a fundamental shift towards amultidimensional approach; that researchers and policy-makers alike have struggled to develop concepts and indicators that do this approach justice; and that this is highly salient not only within individual countries (including bothBritain and the USA) but also for the European Union post-enlargement.The difficulties encountered in applying a multidimensional approach reflect limitations in the information available but also in the conceptual and empirical underpinnings provided by existing research.The central aim of this book is to contribute to the development of those underpinnings and to productive ways of employing non-monetary indicators of deprivation. It will appeal to readers from diverse disciplinary perspectives, especially those concerned with substantive issues and policy implications. In addressing this audience it also provides a non-technical account of recent developments in the rapidly expanding academic literature, serving as a guide to those who wish to explore it ingreater depth. The book maps out the current landscape and the best way forward, concluding by offering a critical evaluation of the EU's 2020 poverty reduction target. INDICE: Why Measure Material Deprivation? Non-Monetary Indicators Deprivation and the EU's Social Inclusion Indicators Income Poverty and Deprivation inan Enlarged Europe The Dimensionality of Deprivation in Europe Understanding the Mismatch between Income Poverty and Material Deprivation Comparing PovertyIndicators in an Enlarged EU Economic Vulnerability and Multiple Deprivation:Welfare State and Social Class Variation The Dynamics of Poverty, Deprivationand Economic Vulnerability Europeanization of Inequality and European Reference Groups Material Deprivation, the EU 2020 Poverty Target and the Developmentof Social indicators
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958843-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 20/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés