Speaking at the 2007 General Assembly of the European Anti Poverty Network (EAPN) held from 8th to 10th November in Budapest and gathering 150 representatives of NGOs working with people experiencing poverty and social exclusion across Europe, EAPN President, Ludo Horemans called for an early start to ensure a successful EU Year against poverty (2010).
DetailsRead the final declaration of the EAPN General Assembly that was held on 8-10 November 2007 in Budapest, Hungary. This was the first General Assembly of EAPN to be held in one of the Member States that joined the EU in its historic enlargement in 2004.
DetailsOne of the problems with discussing poverty is clarifying what it means and how it can be defined. At the EU level, the notions of absolute and relative poverty are both used to describe poverty. Since 2010, the composite notion of Risk of Poverty or Social Exclusion, which brings together relative monetary poverty, material deprivation…
DetailsIn the EU, people falling below 60% of median income are said to be “at-risk-of monetary poverty”. The At Risk Of Poverty or Social Exclusion (AROPE) Composite IndicatorThe At Risk Of Poverty or Social Exclusion (AROPE) Composite Indicator Living below the poverty line: the AROP indicator Social benefits drastically reduce poverty Measuring deprivation: the Severe…
DetailsThe most recent data available (2012) show that 24,8% of the EU population, that is about 124,5 million people, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion. 16,9% of the population in the EU is at risk of relative income poverty, 9,9% is severely materially deprived, and 10,5% is living in households with very low…
DetailsPoverty is fundamentally linked to the issue of how resources are distributed and redistributed in a country. Countries with high levels of inequality are also likely to have high levels of poverty and those with lower levels of inequality are likely to have lower levels of poverty. Inequality: what is it? How it is measured?…
DetailsThe overall persistent high level of poverty in the EU suggests that poverty is primarily the consequence of the way society is organized and resources are allocated. The decisions over how to eradicate poverty in the end are political choices about the kind of society we want. Some people imagine that in a rich region…
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