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Human poverty : measuring relative deprivation from basic achievements : a comparative study for 144 world countries in the time span 1990-2010

Lechman, Ewa - 2013

Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …

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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty : a brief assessment of the literature

Ceriani, Lidia; Hlásny, Vladimír; Verme, Paolo - 2021

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Winners and losers on the roller-coaster : Ireland, 2003 - 2011

Madden, David - 2013

This paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). These curves provide an indication of growth at different...

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The poverty effects of a "Fat-tax" in Ireland

Madden, David - 2013

. Such taxes have been criticised on the basis of their regressivity and potentially adverse impact upon poverty. This paper … analyses the effect of such taxes on a range of poverty measures and also examines the effect of a revenueneutral tax subsidy … neutral with respect to poverty. …

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Ireland's post crisis recovery, 2012-2019: was it pro-poor?

Dooley, Jane; Madden, David - 2021

This paper examines anonymous and non-anonymous Growth Incidence Curves (GICs) for after-tax disposable income for Ireland during its recovery period after the Great Recession, 2012-19. In the absence of suitable panel data the non-anonymous GICs were constructed on a cohort basis with cohorts...

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