Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence distribution and poverty, but in fact the relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most commonly used technique for assessing the distributional impact, benefit incidence analysis, is straightforward, but applied by itself it suffers from a number of serious limitations. Assessment of t...

An approach to the implementation of Schenkerian analysis in a computer program is described. It would appear that a single piece of music has a number of possible analyses related exponentially to the size of the piece. The approach described differs from previous attempts at the computer implementation of Schenkerian analysis by not aiming to build an analysis directly from the notes of the s...

Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence distribution and poverty, but in fact the relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most commonly used technique for assessing the distributional impact, benefit incidence analysis, is straightforward, but applied by itself it suffers from a number of serious limitations. Assessment of t...