Garza-Rodriguez, Jorge; Gonzalez-Martinez, Martha; … - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 4, pp. 3188-3200
This paper uses panel data to decompose total poverty into its chronic and transient components and to estimate the … determinants of each type of poverty for the case of Mexico. It was found that 69 percent of total poverty is chronic and 31 … poverty are different from those explaining transient poverty. These results indicate that chronic poverty is an issue which …