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 …

This research approaches the poverty determinants from a macroeconomic perspective in Bolivia. The identity proposed by … Bourguignon is analyzed; it simultaneously considers the economic growth and distribution effects on poverty. For this objective … inflation poverty. Thus, the relationship between these variables will be verified by data panel methodology. Due to these tools …