Perspectives on Poverty in Europe. Following in Tony Atkinson’s Footsteps

Italian Economic Journal - Tập 6 Số 1 - Trang 129-155 - 2020
Stephen P. Jenkins1
1Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK

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AbstractI address four topics: how our capacities to monitor poverty in Europe have improved substantially over recent decades; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and the future direction of EU-level anti-poverty actions. I follow in the footsteps of a giant—my perspectives are essentially elaborations of points made by Tony Atkinson.

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