REDUCING POVERTY AS A DRIVER OF DEVELOPMENT

Castagna Alina (), Mariateresa Ciommi, Furia Donatella () and Odoardi Iacopo ()
Additional contact information
Castagna Alina: University of Chieti-Pescara,Faculty of Management Sciences
Furia Donatella: University of Chieti-Pescara, Faculty of Management Sciences
Odoardi Iacopo: University of Chieti-Pescara, Faculty of Management Sciences

Annals of Faculty of Economics, 2010, vol. 1, issue 2, 208-213

Abstract: It is ten years after Lisbon and in the year dedicated to poverty alleviation that this paper is written in order to investigate the implications of the decisions regarding poverty reduction taken by the EU. We present a simple comparison of the "risks of poverty" in European countries in 2000 and 2008, before and after transfers, and our finding is a positive effect of the policies towards poverty alleviation, even if the risk of poverty is increasing. By studying the correlation between percentage of people that fall below the poverty line and GDP per capita, we do not observe a whole diverse situation in Europe, with only few minor differences between rich and poor countries. We also discuss the importance of alternative approaches in estimating poverty, by means of a multidimensional method which considers a multitude of aspects in the quality of life.

Keywords: poverty; risk of poverty; GDP; European Integration; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 P3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://anale.steconomiceuoradea.ro/volume/2010/n2/029.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ora:journl:v:1:y:2010:i:2:p:208-213

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Annals of Faculty of Economics from University of Oradea, Faculty of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catalin ZMOLE ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).