Why is it so hard to reach the EU’s ‘poverty’ target?

Darvas, Zsolt, (2017), “Why is it so hard to reach the EU’s ‘poverty’ target?”, Bruegel, 19 Ιανουαρίου

The ‘poverty’ target set by the European Commission aims to lift “over 20 million people out of poverty” between 2008 and 2020 in the EU27. Progress to date against this target has been disappointing. Why is it so hard to reach the Europe 2020 ‘poverty’ target? What does the poverty indicator actually measure?

Σχετικές Αναρτήσεις

• Eurostat/Europe 2020 indicators – poverty and social exclusion/March 2016
• Eurostat/The share of persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU back to its pre-crisis level/199/2016 – 17 October 2016