This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple …

This book examines poverty as a structural problem caused by the way economic systems operate. It poses a simple …

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the … handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity analysis to the use of different poverty lines and poverty indexes … the total population. Additionally, the ranking of countries with respect to poverty is also highly sensitive. This points …

This paper processes 76 household surveys from 17 Latin American countries to document changes in poverty and …. Poverty declined in 10 or 11 of the 17 countries for which household surveys are available to us, depending on the poverty … measured used. Persistently high inequality inhibited further poverty reduction. …

The objective of this work is to assess the changes in poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America …

options for poverty alleviation in a given country. When a population can be divided into subgroups according to an easily … identifiable characteristic, the problem of alleviating poverty through a targeted mechanism can be viewed as one of choosing of … data from Mexico is applied. Note: This paper is published as Chapter 6 in Székely, M. "The Economics of Poverty …