We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …

dimension. Analysis of the results demonstrates that multidimensional poverty in Colombia decreased between 1997 and 2010 …This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning … Department based on the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2010). The proposed index for Colombia is composed of five dimensions …

consequences and poverty impact. The reorientation of development policy from structural adjustment to poverty reduction as the … central objective thus called for new tools to examine distributional change. This book analyzes the poverty and … Colombia and Brazil, and the gas boom in Bolivia. It uses an innovative approach that combines computable general equilibrium …

The study documents how people living in poor urban communities in Colombia, perceive violence, and identifies, the …