To mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17th, CoLABOR is releasing a publication entitled "Poverty in Portugal: Trends and Conjectures".
Included in the "Numbers in Analysis" editorial series, this publication addresses the methodological and conceptual issues surrounding the concept of poverty, as well as its evolutionary trends in Portugal and its impact on specific social categories and regions of the country.
The impact of the national minimum wage (SMN) on exposure to poverty is also addressed, as well as the evolution of the impact of social transfers in Portugal from a comparative perspective, and the identification of two forms of vulnerability, namely the low coverage rate of unemployment benefits and the growing gap between the reference value of the social integration income in relation to the poverty threshold and the SMN. The last point aims to reflect on monetary poverty and material and social deprivation in the current inflationary context, conjecturing expected trends.
