Income disparities and poverty in the European Union member states

The paper gives an outline of the issues of income disparities and poverty with a special attention being paid to the European Union member states. Individual parts of the paper deal income diversity and poverty from a theoretical perspective, income disparities in the EU-countries based on different indicators, poverty in the EU-countries based on At-risk-of-poverty rate and Human Poverty Index. The final part of the paper contains elements of typology premises of EU-countries from the point of view of income diversity and poverty.