Poverty has been ongoing for many years and still continues to exist in almost all countries around the globe. The … objective of alleviating poverty in many nations therefore, remains a significant issue. To comprehend the risks posed by the … issue of poverty, its dimension and the process by which it can become deeper must be known, identified and recognised. A …

-units) on inequality and poverty statistics using Irish microdata. We find that benchmark equivalence scales result in … substantial variation in the degree of income poverty estimated at the household level, particularly for young children and the … children, Irish income poverty rates in 2019 ranged from 15.0 per cent to 19.5 per cent - most of this variation is …

The commonly used poverty gap measure is extended to derive and analyse the properties of a poverty burden measure to … address the question of whether the elimination of poverty is a feasible objective, given sufficient political commitment. The … resources potentially available to address poverty may be measured by the total amount by which the incomes of the non …