Browsing by Subject "poverty"
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Changes in income distributions and the role of tax-benefit policy during the Great Recession: an international perspective
(Wiley, 2016-06-09)In this paper, we examine the impact of the economic crisis and the policy reaction on inequality and relative poverty in four European countries: France, Germany, Ireland and the UK. The period examined, 2008–13, was one ... -
Economic Vulnerability and Severity of Debt Problems: An Analysis of the Irish EU-SILC 2008
(ESRI, 2011)In this paper, using Ireland, where debt issues are of particular salience as a test case, we seek to understand the extent to which the measures currently employed as national indicators of poverty and social exclusion ... -
How Subsistence Communities Reconfigure Livelihood Systems in Response to Climate Change: A Coupled-Systems Perspective
(2022)A defining societal challenge in the era of climate change is ensuring consumption adequacy in subsistence communities. To understand the intricacies of this challenge, we have conducted an ethnographic study of a low-income ... -
?An Incalculable Amount of Misery?: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-3 and the South Dublin Union
(2018)From 1871-3, Ireland experienced one of the deadliest smallpox outbreaks in the nineteenth century with at least 3,248 fatalities during the peak, yet was overshadowed by the Famine, fever, and cholera in the historiography. ... -
The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the role the South Dublin Union (SDU) workhouse played in Dublin's medical landscape for the sick and dying poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during periods of normal operation. ... -
Transport development and poverty reduction in Northeast Brazil
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)The recent shift in focus from the income-based to the multidimensional understanding of poverty has revealed that the global goal of ending poverty requires more than isolated and remedial actions. Integrated efforts from ...