.****************************************************************************************************************Unlike most work on rural poverty in Colombia, in this study we make use of an asset based approach for inquiring about the … determinants of rural poverty. In particular, we examine the presence of local non convexities in the income generating process … differentiated marginal returns to assets. With this, we provide prima facie evidence on the existence of a poverty trap in the …

At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary …

This research analyzes the economic impact of three alternative tax reforms on the Mexican economy, poverty and … inequality, to strengthen the current program to fight against poverty in the country. The main result must be to generate … greater economic impact and reduce poverty in greater proportion, should increase Oportunidades program funds financed through …

, participation, occupational segregation and labor income, over monetary poverty in urban Bolivia. For this purpose, it is proposed … comparison of poverty indicators observed and simulated with this strategy, it is evident that from 2006 to 2015 gender …

This article applies fuzzy set theory to measure three dimensions of poverty in Mexico: monetary poverty, non …-monetary poverty of private goods and non-monetary poverty of public goods. By using those three dimensions, it is possible to build a … joint membership to classify poverty in manifest, latent and non-poverty, which are computed for the three types of official …

Poverty is a problem of extreme seriousness in any society that limits and hinders the path to social progress. Much … has been said about poverty, but the essential and inescapable point is that the real solution to the problem is to remove … argued that "clearer and more transparent definitions of poverty are essential prerequisites of any development policy that …

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 …

Chile's recent success in reducing poverty has been remarkable, with poverty rates falling by approximately two …-thirds over the last 20 years. However, further gains against poverty may be inhibited by the increasing difficulty associated … seeks to understand the relationship between poverty, socioeconomic status and urban or rural residence depends on survey …