Economic Demography Research Day 2016: “Poverty, Vulnerability”

Poverty takes many forms and the contexts it is found in vary greatly between countries, resulting in a wide variety of situations of material deprivation and a wide range of methods for measuring the extent of the phenomenon. In 2015 the United Nations made eradicating extreme poverty in the world (measured as the share of the world population living on less than 1.9 USD per day) by 2030 a major Sustainable Development Goal. In 2008 the European Union set the goal of lifting at least 20 million persons out of the “at risk for poverty” category; a synthetic index combining measures of monetary poverty, living conditions and labour market participation will be used.

INED’s Economic Demography unit is organising a research day Thursday 19 May entitled “Poverty, Vulnerability.” Introductory remarks by François Bourguignon from the Paris School of Economics, followed by sessions on poverty measurement methodology, material deprivation in France and the United Kingdom, and poverty in sub-Saharan African contexts.

Sign up to attend on the Economic Demography unit Research Days website