@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp12014, author={Jenkins, Stephen P.}, title={Perspectives on Poverty in Europe}, year={2018}, month={Dec}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={12014}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12014}, abstract={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. }, keywords={Europe;material deprivation;poverty;EU-SILC}, }