Measuring poverty in Ireland: a comment
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Mac Carthaigh, Seosamh. 'Measuring poverty in Ireland: a comment'. - Economic & Social Review, Vol. 21, No.2, January, 1990, pp. 227-229. Dublin: Economic & Social Research InstituteDownload Item:
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In Callan, Hannan, Nolan and Whelan (1989), the ESRI team attempt to defend the use of "relative income thresholds" as measures of poverty. The argument here will be that there is a lack of correspondence between the definition of poverty the ESRI team propose (Callan et ai., 1989,p. 362) and the measures they advocate; that disposable income is not sufficient as an indicator of poverty; and that, as Sean Barrett (1989) has suggested, "relative income thresholds" are measures of inequality, not of poverty.
Author: Mac Carthaigh, Seosamh
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Poverty, Inequality, Ireland, IncomeISSN:
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