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Poverty in Europe

ISBN: 978-0-631-21029-0

September 1998

Wiley-Blackwell

200 pages

Description
The work draws upon recent research to examine the problem of poverty. In its exploration, Poverty in Europe challenges readers to reach an improved understanding of the problem and to seek improvement.
About the Author
A. B. Atkinson is Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford.
Features
* Incorporates recent research.

* Developed from the author's presentation at the twelfth Yro Jansson Lecture in Helsinki.

* Confronts the issue of the persistence of poverty in wealth countries.

* Covers the topics of financial poverty in the European Union, economics of poverty and exclusion, and political economy of poverty.