Browsing The Economic and Social Review, Vol. 21, No. 2, January, 1990 by Subject "Poverty"

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    • Measuring poverty in Ireland: a comment 

      Mac Carthaigh, Seosamh (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)
      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 ...

    • Measuring poverty in Ireland: reply 

      Callan, Tim; Hannan, Damian F.; Nolan, Brian; Whelan, Brendan J. (Economic & Social Studies, Dublin, 1990)
      MacCarthaigh makes three points with respect to the measurement of poverty, drawing on the work of Stein Ringen. We deal with these in turn, and attempt to match his comment for succinctness ? the issues are discussed in ...