<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article is devoted to analysis of selected poverty indicators as measured by EU-Statistics on income and living conditions. Our orientation on these indicators underlines our focus on quantitative measurement. Spatial orientation was selected as the area of the Visegrad group countries serving as a research base for our investigation of poverty differences in the Central Europe. Further research is dedicated to Slovakia and its regions. In this article we aim to identify those quantitative poverty indicators that are responsible for poverty status of the most affected social group of people in the country.</p></abstract>

This article is devoted to analysis of selected poverty indicators as measured by EU-Statistics on income and living conditions. Our orientation on these indicators underlines our focus on quantitative measurement. Spatial orientation was selected as the area of the Visegrad group countries serving as a research base for our investigation of poverty differences in the Central Europe. Further research is dedicated to Slovakia and its regions. In this article we aim to identify those quantitative poverty indicators that are responsible for poverty status of the most affected social group of people in the country.

Measuring Development of Selected Poverty Risk Indicators in V4 Countries with Specific Focus on Slovak Republic and its Regions

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Faculty of European studies and regional development, Department of European polices, Mariánska 10, 949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic

Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Slovak Republic

Acta Regionalia et Environmentalica

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This article is devoted to analysis of selected poverty indicators as measured by EU-Statistics on income and living conditions. Our orientation on these...

Measuring Development of Selected Poverty Risk Indicators in V4 Countries with Specific Focus on Slovak Republic and its Regions

Published Online: Jul 26, 2016

Page range: 22 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aree-2016-0005

Keywords
material deprivation, at risk of poverty rate, low work intensity

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

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Measuring Development of Selected Poverty Risk Indicators in V4 Countries with Specific Focus on Slovak Republic and its Regions

Published Online: Jul 26, 2016

Page range: 22 - 26

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/aree-2016-0005

Keywordsmaterial deprivation, at risk of poverty rate, low work intensity

© Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
material deprivation, at risk of poverty rate, low work intensity