Although a wide array of stochastic dominance tests exist for poverty measurement and identification, they assume the … income distributions have independent poverty lines or a common absolute (fixed) poverty line. We propose a stochastic … dominance test for comparing income distributions up to a common relative poverty line (i.e., some fraction of the pooled median …

, household energy needs and vulnerability -- Chapter 3. Energy poverty and health pathologies: an empirical study on the French … Case -- Chapter 4. Vulnerability to motor fuel price increases: socio-spatial patterns in Italy -- Chapter 5. The gender-energy-poverty … Ecobonus as energy poverty mitigation policy: is energy efficiency for all?"? -- Chapter 9. Energy poverty and just …

between MFIs, an Irish solution, and the poor law, a British solution, to Ireland's chronic poverty. The goal of the Irish … solution was to address what was perceived to be the cause of poverty, a want of capital, while the British solution addressed … the symptoms of poverty but not its root cause. …