%0 Report %A Jenkins, Stephen P. %T Perspectives on Poverty in Europe %D 2018 %8 2018 Dec %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 12014 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12014 %X 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. %K Europe %K material deprivation %K poverty %K EU-SILC