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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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A multidimensional approach to measuring economic insecurity : the case of Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2021

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Optimal commodity taxation and redistribution within households

Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2011

Using a collective model of consumption, we characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less...

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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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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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Are the effects of height on well-being a tall tale?

Denny, Kevin - 2015

Numerous papers have documented a positive association between height and good physical health and also with good economic outcomes such as earnings. A smaller number have argued for an association with well-being. In this paper, cross-country data from Europe is used to analyse whether...

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Which households matter most? : capturing equity considerations in tax reform via generalised social marginal welfare weights

Madden, David; Savage, Michael - 2015

Equal Sacrifice, poverty alleviation, government self-interest and the redistribution of "luck" income. The distribution of …

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Poverty, inequality and social protection in Myanmar

Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Tarp, Finn - 2021

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