RELATIVE POVERTY LINES: AN APPLICATION TO IRISH DATA FOR 1973 AND 1980. ESRI Working Paper No. 4, February 1988

The need to conceive of poverty in developed economies as being relative rather than absolute in nature - with the minimum acceptable income and standard of between different societies and over time Within this general framework, living varying is now widely accepted. the choice of a specific poverty line for a particular society at a particular date is fraught with difficulty. A number of different approaches ta deriving such poverty lines have been developed and were reviewed in the second Working Paper in our series "Concepts of Poverty and the Poverty Line" (Callan and Nolan, 1987)