paper, we utilize Consumption Dominance curve techniques to analyse the impact of marginal indirect tax changes on poverty … on the theory of stochastic dominance, we examined the pairwise comparison of different combinations of commodities for … marginal tax changes which will reduce poverty for some selected commodities over a broad class of poverty measures and poverty …

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …

socio-economic development. Following the logic of fuzzy sets theory, we explain poverty as deprivation from – for example …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 …

This paper reviews developments in income and health poverty in Ireland over the 2003-2011 period using data from the … poverty fell up to and including 2009, after which this trend is reversed. Health poverty shows less of a trend over the … period though there is some evidence of a reduction in health inequality from 2006. Movements in bi-dimensional poverty are …

This paper examines multidimensional poverty for three waves of a cohort of Irish children ranging from ages 9 to 17 …. Poverty is measured over the dimensions of health, education and family resources and both unidimensional and multidimensional … poverty is examined. Both show a clear gradient with respect to maternal education. The dynamics of both unidimensional and …