This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …

This paper studies the evolution of intertemporal poverty indicators in Argentina for the past 15 years. We exploit the … rotation scheme of the EPH survey to construct successive panels covering the period 1997-2012. This allows decomposing poverty … employment characteristics, while chronic poverty is particularly explained by structural characteristics, head and spouse …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … and Chile experienced significant reductions of multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil …

the "poor/non-poor" classification in the first stage. -- Multidimensional welfare ; poverty ; factory analysis ; clusters …

This chapter discusses the measurement of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Latin America, and documents the … main patterns and trends. By providing an updated assessment of the level, changes and characteristics of poverty in the …

improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …

changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … associated to a non-negligible reduction in inequality and poverty in the region. The main channel was straightforward: lower …, especially among women, which contributed to the reduction of poverty and inequality in most countries, although the size of this …

regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality … the poorest in the Haiti's South out of poverty, reducing the poverty headcount by 1.6 percentage points. Driving this …