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THE EUROPEAN MASTER IN OFFICIAL STATISTICS

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Bálint Menyhért on "Measuring and monitoring absolute poverty in Europe"
Bálint Menyhért on "Measuring and monitoring absolute poverty in Europe"

Wed, 29 Mar

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Bálint Menyhért on "Measuring and monitoring absolute poverty in Europe"

The webinar will discuss several topics such as the current framework of social measurement in the EU, main aspects of absolute poverty measurement, international comparability in poverty measurement, and many more.

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29 Mar 2023, 16:00 GMT+2

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Bálint Menyhért is a researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. He is an empirical economist interested in applied micro- and macroeconomics, labour markets, social policy analysis and the economic history of Central and Eastern Europe. He currently works as a research economist at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. His main activities focus on socio-economic resilience, poverty measurement and the social effects of rising inflation. The ABSPO research project he coordinated produced the first set of cross-country comparable absolute poverty lines across the European Union. Bálint holds a PhD from the Central European University and has previous work experience from the OECD, the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston & New York.

Webinar content:  

  • the current framework of social measurement in the EU

  • main concepts, data, procedures and methods of absolute poverty measurement

  • conceptual and practical…

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