The objective of this work is to assess the changes in poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America …

This work assesses the changes in aggregate poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America during the … region for the period from 1970-1995. We find that poverty and inequality have not declined during the 1990s in spite of …. Our results show that even though there are differences in levels across countries, inequality and poverty in most of them …

inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those … multidimensional poverty in Central America are higher among females; inequality, however, is somewhat higher among males. …

Most existing empirical papers concerned about multidimensional poverty use the house- hold as the unit of analysis …, meaning that multidimensional poverty status of the household is equated with the multidimensional poverty status of all … individual-based multidimensional poverty mea- sure in order to estimate the three Is of multidimensional poverty (incidence …

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

review of recent research, consideration of how inequality is discussed in legal documents, and an analysis of inequality … using household survey data from Viet Nam. Inequality is widely mentioned in legal documents. As of May 2024, there are 443 … expenditure and income inequality using household surveys. Using VHLSS data, we measure inequality in different welfare indicators …

inequality sensitive view of multi-dimensional poverty when only ordinal (dichotomized) variables are available. We use such an …, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, shedding thus some light on gender differences in poverty and inequality in those … multi-dimensional poverty in Central America are higher among females; inequality, however, is somewhat higher among males …

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 …

According to Sen (1976), any reasonable poverty index ought to be sensitive to inequality. In a multidimensional … framework, inequality between poverty dimensions is traditionally treated as association sensitivity. Such an approach, however … the new property, it then proceeds to derive a new class of inequality-sensitive poverty measures whose advantages are …