In 1950, approximately 1.8 billion lived in rural areas and subsequently, rural population
growth averaged 1.0 per cent per year, with the result that the rural population nearly …

Abstract In December 2001, the Laeken European Council adopted a set of commonly
agreed and defined indicators for social inclusion. These should play a central role in …

The definition of sustainability has always been discussed by experts. In 1972, definitions
stressed restrictions on ecological systems, carrying out functions such as absorption and …

Through a survey with a representative sample of Dutch Internet users, this paper examines
compound digital exclusion, that is, whether a person who lacks a particular digital skill also …

This book owes much to other people. There are, first and foremost, my coauthors in the
fields of poverty and income distribution, with whom it has been a great pleasure to work …

This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty,
understood as a person's inability to meet minimum international standards in indicators …

Changing Welfare States is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

The notion of digital exclusion has become important in communications research but
remains undertheorized. This article proposes a theoretical model that hypothesizes how …

This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 develo**
countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets …

This paper proposes a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement
consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union …