Open AccessThe scientific contribution of Leonor Vasconcelos Ferreira
Author(s) -
Aurora A.C. Teixeira,
Sandra Silva,
Pedro Teixeira
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
notas económicas/notas económicas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-203X
pISSN - 0872-4733
DOI - 10.14195/2183-203x_35_1
Subject(s) - underpinning , relevance (law) , poverty , sociology , political science , humanities , philosophy , engineering , law , civil engineering
Despite her sadly short academic life, Leonor Vasconcelos Ferreira has left us a set of publications of noticeable scientific quality and explicitly social relevance, focusing on the study and measurement of poverty and income inequality. The present article briefly summarises the outcome of her work and the concerns underpinning it.