This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …. Multidimensional poverty rates decreased in both urban and rural areas, but imbalances remain. As well as calculating the incidence of …

The US rural poverty rate has been consistently higher than the urban rate for several decades. One question might be …. Using annual 1985-2015 data and regressing both poverty rates on the national unemployment rate and the Gini coefficient …