En este trabajo se exponen las principales metodologías de medición de líneas de pobreza absoluta por ingresos. Se explican los diversos métodos de medición de la línea de pobreza y se especifican los alcances de cada uno. Adicionalmente se presentan las metodologías de medición de...

Household income inequality has declined in Latin America in the past decades, contributing significantly to poverty reduction in the region. Although available evidence shows that changes in the labor income are among the main factors behind these inequality trends, few studies have analyzed...

In the poor and drought-prone rural district of Dhar in Madhya Pradesh, India, Gyandoot has tried to make government services more accessible to villagers through information and communications technology (ICT) since January 2000. Two recent surveys of this e-government project allow us to...

Over the last decade and a half, conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes?together with other non-contributory social protection programmes such as social pensions ? have become the main gateway into social protection systems for poor and vulnerable populations in Latin America and the...

Ao longo da última década e meia, os Programas de Transferência Condicionada (PTCs) de renda ? em conjunto com outros programas não contributivos de proteção social, como as pensões sociais ? tornaram-se a principal porta de entrada para os sistemas de proteção social para as...

In the last decade Chile has attracted renewed interest for its innovative social protection policies and programmes, such as the Chile Solidario system to overcome extreme poverty (launched in 2002), the special plan for Universal Access with Explicit Guarantees (Plan de Acceso Universal con...