Local Manifestation of Poverty and Social Exclusion

10 Poverty, social exclusion, and minorities

Poverty, the extent of relative deprivation, and the processes of social exclusion in a society have a major impact on the health of its population. All over Europe, in richer countries as well as poorer ones, those people who are worse off in socio-economic terms have worse health outcomes and higher death rates than those who are better off. Particular ‘minority’ ethnic groups are often in po...

Poverty, social exclusion and health in Portugal.

People in Portugal have never been so healthy. Nevertheless, there are great differences in health status between social groups and regions. In 1994, Portugal was the country with the second worst level of inequality in terms of income distribution and with the highest level of poverty in the European Union (EU). Poverty in Portugal affects mainly the elderly and women (especially in single par...

Poverty and social exclusion in urban and rural areas of Scotland Poverty and Social Exclusion UK Survey 2012 Working Paper

Title Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty

Description Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty, as well as Pareto tail modeling for empirical income distributions.

Tools for participatory analysis of poverty, social exclusion and vulnerability

Participatory approaches have been broadly advocated in development policy as means of enabling local people to share and analyse their conditions and experiences (See for example Chambers 1994; Leavy and Howard, et al. 2013). This report identifies and reviews a selection of participatory tools that have been used in micro-level poverty, social exclusion and vulnerability analysis. The approac...