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| Measuring well-being and exclusion in Europe's regions | | Author(s) | Kitty Stewart |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2002 |
| Pages | 58 pp (CASEpaper 53) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Wealth ; Labour economics ; Education ; Health [elderly] ; Participation ; European Union ; Regional ; Indicators ; Europe. |
| Annotation | The Lisbon summit of the European Council of Ministers in March 2000 declared the number of people living in poverty and social exclusion in the European Union (EU) to be unacceptable, and called for steps to tackle the issue, beginning with the setting of targets for particular indicators. Whilst the EU has suggested targets based on national averages, this paper develops regional indicators of well-being and exclusion for EU countries. The author uses a range of sources to put together indicators in five dimensions of well-being: material well-being, health, education, and participation in two spheres - productive and social. The paper explores how far national indicators disguise geographical inequalities in these different dimensions, and the extent to which regional performance differs according to which dimension is being examined. Attention is drawn to the limits of currently available data, in the light of the commitment to collect better data on poverty and social exclusion. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020426001 B |
| Classmark | W6: W7: WH: V: CC: TMB: WFC: 5CP: 3RI: 74 |
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