Segregation and inclusion just don't mix!

Abstract

Poverty is often understood as a situation characterised by multiple deprivation caused by lack of monetary resources, mainly income and consumption. Admittedly, monetary indicators do reflect the actual living conditions of persons and households, however, a number of key challenges, which Malta faces by way of eradicating poverty and promoting social cohesion, cannot be adequately measured in monetary terms. On the basis of available data, I shall be addressing a few of these non-monetary indicators or areas of exclusion in an attempt at providing a comparative analysis of the situation of social exclusion in Malta.