Subject(s): Poverty. -- Equality. -- POLITICAL SCIENCE in Economic Conditions. -- New directions in analysis of inequality and poverty -- Conceptual issues : Inequality is bad for the poor, measurement of income distribution in supernational entities in European union, beyond conventional measures of income- including indirect benefits and taxes, inequality within the household reconsidered -- Multiple dimensions : inequality of learning in industrialized countries, multidimensionality of poverty and social exclusion, summarizing multiple deprivation indicators, robust multidimensional poverty comparisons with discrete indicators of well being -- Public policy : Guaranteed income for Europe's children, impact of minimum wages on distribution of earnings and employment in USA, training minimum wages and distribution of earnings, government debt and portfolios of rich