addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

inequality, institutions, and economic and infrastructure policies can influence welfare and political stability. Chapter 2 … development. Chapters 5 and 6 contribute to the debate on the effect of political and fiscal institutions on budgeting …

This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the choice of adult equivalence scales and … scales, for New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the OECD are examined. The implications of varying the poverty line are also …

a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …

redistribute income. The redistributive power of 56 transfers in eight countries is measured by their simulated impacts on poverty … unit subsidies limit the redistributive, poverty and inequality impacts of even the most targeted social assistance …

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 … multidimensional poverty is also analysed. The greatest degree of mobility is observed with respect to family resources. Mobility also …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in … distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes … the characteristics of poverty among the working population based on gender and other household attributes. It measures …