launch the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion under the slogan 'Stop Poverty Now!' at an event in Madrid. Recent EU statistics indicate that 17% of people across the EU ...

This is because the post uses data from about 20 years ago for the Nordic countries ... and Belgium have the lowest child ...

The Macro Poverty Outlook (MPO) analyzes macroeconomic and poverty developments in 22 developing countries in Europe and Central Asia. The report is released twice annually for the Spring and Annual ...

The University of Manchester is strengthening its commitment to addressing global poverty and ... of its kind in Europe. In early 2016 the Global Development Institute will unite the strengths of the ...

Among the main political targets of the strategy is a pledge to lift 20 million Europeans out of poverty in the next ten years. "The European Platform against Poverty and Social Exclusion provides ...

But peers have written to complain that after almost six years ... to 2020 from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, to be used in projects such as child poverty, homelessness or ...

While the employed faced an 11.3% risk of poverty or social exclusion, the unemployed faced a significantly higher risk at 66.3%. The last year’s figure was 95.3 million, making up 21% of the EU ...

The UK's food poverty level is now among the highest in Europe. Roughly 15% of UK households ... The Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported last year that "exceptionally high food inflation ...