-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA applications related to general well-being, inequalities, poverty and human … ; high income countries ; general well being ; poverty ; human development ; assessing capabilities …

, and in particular to sea-level rise and its associated risks. We construct poverty and hardship profiles for households on …

tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …

-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual … are unwilling to accept a job that brings them out of poverty. …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …