Abstract This paper compares the monetary and living standards approaches to poverty using Australian data for period 2006–2017. The aim is highlight conceptual empirical strengths weaknesses of two identify similarities differences that emerge when both are applied examine what happened over a limited degree, why. acknowledged limitations estimating rates by comparing household income with lin...

In this paper, we study the role of price correction in estimating the impact of price subsidies and anti-poverty cash transfer schemes on poverty in Tunisia. Three types of price corrections are considered: (a) no corrections; (b) living standards deflated by spatial Laspeyres price indices; (c) living standards deflated by true price indices that are estimated from a quadratic almost ideal de...

We present label-free functional photoacoustic imaging of the ocular microvasculature in living animals. The anterior segment of an adult mouse was imaged with a laser exposure level well within the American National Standards Institute safety standards. Individual red blood cells traveling along the iris capillaries were clearly resolved, and the hemoglobin oxygen saturation in the iris microv...

A nation’s savings matters. Money set aside from today’s consumption can be invested, through financial markets, in productive assets embodying the latest innovations. A newer and better capital stock can provide the fuel to sustain higher rates of growth and improve living standards. In a nutshell, that’s the current view of many economists, one that places savings among the most important pil...

This paper presents new evidence on the existence of pre-industrial growth spurts and the nature of economic growth during the transition from Malthus to Solow. In this research, growth spurts are an intrinsic feature of the economy, but throughout history their effect on standards of living is mostly temporary. Sustained rises in living standards only become sustained when there are complement...

OBJECTIVES To investigate in older industrialised societies (a) how social disadvantage contributes to smoking risk among women (b) the role of social and economic policies in reducing disadvantage and moderating wider inequalities in life chances and living standards. METHODS Review and analysis of (a) the effects of disadvantage in childhood and into adulthood on women's smoking status in e...

BACKGROUND Psychiatric disorders are common during young adulthood and comorbidity is frequent. Individual psychiatric disorders have been shown to be associated with negative economic and educational outcomes, but few studies have addressed the relationship between the total extent of psychiatric disorder and life outcomes. AIMS To examine whether the extent of common psychiatric disorder be...

Throughout the past 100 years, family budgets have been produced using a variety of methodologies; these budgets are compared with new budgets that have been derived using actual expenditures of families and Lucilla Tan are economists in the Division of Consumer Expenditure Surveys, Bureau of Labor Statistics. T he measurement of family budgets and budget standards dates back to the late 19th c...

This paper considers the functioning approach to the standard of living. It shows that, in evaluating standards of living, one is faced with deep-rooted tensions between the principle of minimal relativism, which requires some minimal respect for differences between the evaluations of different individuals and/or the differences between the norms of different communities, and the principle of d...