Ubóstwo w krajach Unii Europejskiej
Poverty in the EU Countries

Summary/Abstract: In 2010, the European Council determined 5 major aims of the strategy ‘Europe 2020’. One of those aims concerned the promotion of social integration, notably by reducing the extent of poverty. The authors of the paper propose a method of measuring the poverty which could help to identify the EU countries having the biggest numbers of the poor and which should receive the biggest financial support needed in order to reduce the total number of the poor in the European Union by 20 million, as assumed in the strategy ‘Europe 2020’. The proposed method takes into consideration both monetary and non-monetary indicators showing material deprivation of the poorest households. Using this method, the authors have estimated the numbers of the poor and the scope of poverty in the individual EU countries and calculated the financial costs of the assumed reduction of the poverty.

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