Who Is Poor in Our Society?

Bart Capéau, Laurens Cherchye, Koen Decancq, André Decoster, Bram De Rock, Francois Maniquet, Annemie Nys, Guillaume Périlleux, Eve Ramaekers, Zoé Rongé, Erik Schokkaert and Frederic Vermeulen
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Annemie Nys: University of Antwerp
Zoé Rongé: KU Leuven

Chapter Chapter 5 in Well-being in Belgium, 2020, pp 27-32 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Many people believe that everyone in society should be able to achieve a minimum level of material welfare. People whose material welfare is below this minimum level are regarded as poor. Two standard measures are used to measure poverty in our society: the risk of poverty and material deprivation.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58509-9_5

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