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The aim of this project is to contribute to the theory of poverty measurement by connecting it with other fields of welfare economics, and to better understand how redistributive policies should be designed to decrease poverty. Read more ...

The PoRESP blog aims at providing information on scientific events, scientific papers and news on poverty related topics.     Archives

EVENTS   PoRESP Workshop October 26th 2016 Poverty and Well-being More ...   PoRESP Summer School July 6-9th 2015, Brussels Anti-poverty Policies and Individual Responses Please visit the official summer school page for further information (click below on the picture) :   CORE/ERC - PoRESP Economics Seminar June 15th 2015 Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis Sabina ALKIRE, Oxford University More ... Together with Sabina Alkire, James Foster, Suman Seth and Paola Ballon, coauthors of the new book on multidimensional poverty will  be at CORE to present and discuss their work. The book ...   PoRESP Conference December 5-6th 2013 Poverty and the Family More ...   PoRESP Workshop December 14th 2012 Well-being measurement and policy design when agents' preferences are other-regarding More ...   PoRESP Conference May 29-30th 2012 Multidimensional poverty and inequalities measurement More ...		NEWS 11.08.2016 Well-being, poverty and labor income taxation : theory and application to Europe and the U.S. / François Maniquet, Dirk Neumann CORE Discussion Paper 2016/29 16.06.2016 The Oxford handbook of well-being and public policy / M.D. Adler, Marc Fleurbaey Oxford University Press, 2016 04.05.2016 The importance of qualitative research / Véronique Gille 29.04.2016 Poverty and the present bias / François Maniquet 26.04.2016 Why would poor people vote for an elite party? The BJP victory puzzle in India / Véronique Gille 18.04.2016 Child poverty and policies / Mery Ferrando 25.02.2016 Millennium Development Goals : evaluation and beyond / Benoit Decerf 29.12.2015 Inheritance, dependence and poverty / Marion Leturcq 14.12.2015 When does unequal growth reduce income poverty? A new index combining absolute and relative dimensions of poverty / Aditi Dimri 14.12.2015 Behavioural development economics : lessons from field labs in the developing world / Aditi Dimri 11.12.2015 Psychological frictions and non take-up / François Maniquet 06.12.2015 A new index combining the absolute and relative aspects of income poverty : theory and application / Benoit Decerf CORE Discussion Paper 2015/50 04.11.2015 Angus Deaton’s great escape / François Maniquet 15.10.2015 Female empowerment and Islamic political control in Turkey / Sinem Bas 15.08.2015 Coping with stress and poverty: some insights into Martha Wadworth’s work / Véronique Gille 16.06.2015 The indirect effect of the EITC program on infant health / François Maniquet 22.04.2015 Spending in education does matter / Mery Ferrando 23.02.2015 Gender Discrimination & Social Norms in India / Aditi Dimri 17.02.2015 Multidimensional poverty measurement with individual preferences / Koen Decancq, Marc Fleurbaey, François Maniquet CORE Discussion Paper 2015/08 11.02.2015 Homeless women: what do we know? / François Maniquet 04.02.2015 Identifying the worst off in a society: does the choice of well-being measure matter? / Dirk Neumann 20.01.2015 Optimal taxation theory and principles of fairness / Marc Fleurbaey, François Maniquet CORE Discussion Paper 2015/05 10.11.2014 Social ordering functions / François Maniquet CORE Discussion Paper 2014/51 10.11.2014 Does the choice of well-being measure matter empirically ? An illustration with German data / Koen Decancq and Dirk Neumann CORE Discussion Paper 2014/50 08.09.2014 The PoRESP team is happy to welcome a new post doc : Véronique. 12.08.2014 Income poverty measures with relative poverty lines / Benoit Decerf CORE Discussion Paper 2014/22 12.08.2014 Inequality, income, and well-being Koen Decancq, Marc Fleurbaey, Erik Schokkaert CORE Discussion Paper 2014/18 02.12.2013 The PoRESP team is happy to welcome a new PhD student : Sinem. 20.03.2013 The PoRESP team is happy to welcome a new post doc : Dirk. 04.10.2012 The PoRESP team is happy to welcome three new PhD students this year : Aditi, Martin and Mery.		Principal Investigator François Maniquet