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

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ITALIAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 129-155

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SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s40797-019-00112-0

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Poverty; Material deprivation; Europe; EU-SILC

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  1. Australian Research Council Discovery Grant [DP150102409]
  2. Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the Institute for Social and Economic Research by the University of Essex
  3. UK Economic and Social Research Council [ES/L009153/1]
  4. ESRC [ES/L009153/1] Funding Source: UKRI

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I 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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