Poverty and Deprivation in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780199588435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 275 str.

Brian Nolan

Opis

Research on poverty in rich countries relies primarily 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 starting-point that research on poverty and social exclusion has been undergoing a fundamental shift towards a multidimensional 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 both Britain 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.

Recenzje

A valuable and very timely reference point for further work on the monitoring of poverty and social exclusion in the EU.

O autorze

Brian Nolan previously worked in the Economic and Social Research Institute, where he was Head of the Social Policy Research Division, and in the Central Bank of Ireland. He is a UCD graduate and has a doctorate in economics from the London School of Economics. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, and President of the Irish Economics Association. He has participated in a range of collaborative research networks and projects, and is research co-ordinator of the GINI project funded under the EU's FP7 programme, focusing on the economic, social and political impacts of growing inequalities [see http://www.gini-research.org/articles/home] Christopher T. Whelan was formerly a Research Professor in the Economic and Social Research Institute. He was Chair of the Standing Committee for the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation from 2002 to 2006 and of the Governing Council of the EU Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion (EQUALSOC) Network of Excellence from 2005-2009. He is Chair of the European Consortium for Sociological Research. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, associate editor of the European Sociological Review and a member of the editorial board of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies.