Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 … made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most …

This study explores the short-run transitions between poverty, vulnerability, and middle class, using synthetic panels … constructed from multiple rounds of Colombia's Integrated Household Survey (in Spanish Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares). The …

points in the poverty headcount as well as a decline of 0.32 points in the Gini coefficient. …

addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

Element ends with two sections showing first how measures of inequality, poverty and welfare may be derived from such an order …