-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 importance of taking into account multiple dimensions of well-being in the measurement of poverty has been … emphasized in the recent literature. The poverty alleviation literature has not, however, yet addressed the important issue of … policy design for efficient multidimensional poverty reduction. From a normative perspective, it can be argued that, in …

Poverty-reducing policies ought to prioritize the "deserving" poor, that is, those who do all that can be reasonably … a theory of justice accommodating norms of individual responsibility. I propose and axiomatically characterize a family … of poverty indices that address these issues. Formally, poverty is measured by the sum of specific indices of individual …

respected and where in each approach the boundaries of individual responsibility are drawn. We compare the measurement of …