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...

We study the effect of learning another language on the social and individual welfare by a people group who do not know that language. We use network economics approach in order to take into account the externalities of languages. The equilibrium with decentralized choices is not as good as the...

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...

Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have worked fairly well in large upper middle-income countries such as Brazil and Mexico. But this does not mean that the CCT model can be exported to all countries, especially the poorest. As the table shows, programmes in low-income countries are...

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...