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

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…