Analysis of Economic and Social Exclusion in Spain and Its Regions

This project aims to build on the analysis of poverty in Spain’s regions, an aspect that could not be fully explored in the book Geographic Distribution of Household Income in Spain: Prosperity, Inequality, and Poverty, by Carmen Herrero and Carlos Albert. The study focuses on objective poverty from a unidimensional perspective, using income as the key reference variable. It applies one relative poverty line to define who is poor and another to identify those who are “extremely poor.” Households are considered “economic units” (adjusted for size and composition in line with standard practice), and the poverty lines used are the standard thresholds of 60% of the median for poverty and 40% of the median for extreme poverty. In addition, the project introduces  two novel elements compared to the analysis presented in the previous monograph: the study of poverty intensity and the analysis of opportunities available to disadvantaged populations across regions.