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Disadvantaged Stories as Inheritance
The scenario Poverty in Italy today remains at historic highs, in continuity with the year of the pandemic that in just twelve months increased the number of poor people by one million (Figure 1). It is a phenomenon that can now be considered structural in our country, as it affects 9.4 percent of the population; almost one resident out of ten lives in a condition of absolute poverty. If we consider ...
The Entirely Italian “Poverty Regime”
Premise: how do we measure poverty? What poverty is and how it can be measured is the subject of many theoretical and methodological debates that do not provide, nor could they provide, a single answer. It is not just a matter of choosing between a multidimensional or a unidimensional conception of poverty, and therefore which indicators to use (only economic or also human and social capital, ...