Alternative poverty measures in Chile, 1990-2015

Poverty levels in Chile have decreased since 1990, in a context of sustained GDP and family income growth. The intensity of this evolution is controversial based on the different measure methods applied. Absolute, relative, and multidimensional poverty indexes are compared. It is concluded that, bas...

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Autor: Martner, Gonzalo D.
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2018
País:Costa Rica
Recursos:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositório:Portal de Revistas UNA
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.www.una.ac.cr:article/10616
Acesso em linha:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/economia/article/view/10616
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:revenues
absolute poverty
relative poverty
multidimensional poverty
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pobreza absoluta
pobreza relativa
pobreza multidimensional
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Resumo:Poverty levels in Chile have decreased since 1990, in a context of sustained GDP and family income growth. The intensity of this evolution is controversial based on the different measure methods applied. Absolute, relative, and multidimensional poverty indexes are compared. It is concluded that, based on the same income survey, resulting measures highly depend on poverty definitions. Evidence is presented for the 1990-2015 period.