Who is poor? an analysis of how people living in poverty are identified in Latin America
This article examines empirically the soundness of how people living in poverty are identified, through three types of analysis and utilizing data from 2012 for five Latin American countries. The results demonstrate that the monetary method and the multidimensional non-monetary method alone...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/68414 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/68414 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | pobreza método monetario método multidimensional no-monetario métodos de identificación carencias sociales poverty monetary method multidimensional non-monetary method identification methods |
| Sumario: | This article examines empirically the soundness of how people living in poverty are identified, through three types of analysis and utilizing data from 2012 for five Latin American countries. The results demonstrate that the monetary method and the multidimensional non-monetary method alone are insufficient as a way to identify poverty in a comprehensive way. It is therefore appropriate to use intermediate poverty thresholds for the multidimensional index, and typification of poverty groups within these countries is sensitive to the selection of the threshold. These findings reaffirm the need to reach a consensus regarding the definition of poverty in the region’s countries |
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