How useful and relevant are the results of standard optimal commodity tax models when one or more commodities are rationed? This paper investigates the implications of optimal commodity taxation under rationing. In a single person economy, optimal policy dictates that the rationed commodity...

The Ukraine is now faced with economic crisis on an unprecedented scale. The government has to follow rigorous demand management policies, which entail lowering the population's standard of living. To design policies that protect the poorest and most vulnerable groups in the society, it is...

Measurement of poverty involves two distinct problems. First is the specification of the poverty line, which may reflect the socially accepted minimal living standard. Once the poverty line is determined, the second problem is constructing an index which measures the intensity of poverty...