The old and new poverty / 1 
begin a thematic on Poverty, old and new ideas arising from the 2010 as the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
The event is an occasion for reflection on the strategy to combat poverty in Lisbon in 2000 and determined to redesign the actions aimed at these objectives in the near decade. The theme of the European
falls at an extremely critical from a financial point of view, linked to international economic issues that have resulted in overt social transformation processes also in the reality of our country.
On the one hand, in the light of these new events, you need an updated interpretation of the dynamics of poverty and exclusion that would complement the traditional statistical tools, put a picture in real time of ongoing change. On the other hand, Italy has launched a complex design challenge and cultural sees the need to start a new path for broader institutional participation to achieve the goal of reforming a new welfare model.
should, before continuing to dwell on the definition of poverty.
take the fundamental distinction between:
- absolute poverty, lack of income as a situation that poses a serious-very serious difficulties to survive, it has no material resources to ensure the pure physical efficiency;
- relative poverty, as a shortage of resources, calculated from the average situation in the present context, which is important in connection with the social structure in which it occurs and its internal relationships;
- poverty objective, such as poverty and destitution of people and groups that is measured on systems detect objects and universally applicable;
- subjective poverty, detectable by examining the assumptions and views of stakeholders, and may present a difference, although significant, compared to the objective parameter;
- multidimensional poverty, as a situation that was correlated with the concept of inequality , assumes the characteristics of cumulative process through cofactors (scarcity or lack of income, low education and skills, health conditions, inadequate or lack of housing, job insecurity or lack of a job, social exclusion ...);
- economic poverty, as a situation that, again compared to the concept of inequality, is represented by the single dimension, concerning the inadequacy of financial resources.
