Addressing poverty and supporting social inclusion

Addressing Poverty
and Supporting Social Inclusion

Brussels,

Inequality is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. While evaluating it, we can look at its outcome, such as income, education, or health. Inequality can also be assessed as a function of characteristics of a person, such as age, gender or place of residence. It is also possible to evaluate the inequality of opportunity (principle 3 of European Pillar of Social Rights) and its effect on the social mobility, i.e. the persistence of (dis)advantage from parents to children in terms of income, education or health.

Finally, inclusiveness of growth can be assessed, i.e. the extent to which the products are distributed equally in the population in terms of higher disposable income and/or higher quality of life.