TY - RPRT AU - Jenkins, Stephen P. TI - Perspectives on Poverty in Europe PY - 2018/Dec/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 12014 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12014 AB - 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. KW - Europe KW - material deprivation KW - poverty KW - EU-SILC ER -