This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty …

It is widely held that indigenous Chileans experience greater rates of poverty and indigence than non …-indigenousChileans, yet the evidence to date has been based on surveys that are not representative by ethnicity. In this paper,we use poverty … mapping methodologies that are typically applied to geography to develop statistically preciseestimates of poverty, indigence …

Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …

Accounting for environmental damage is relevant to how one measures the extent and severity of inequality and poverty … inequality and poverty measures for Brazil and Costa Rica. Unlike Khan, I test for different assumptions regarding the ecological … distribution. Provisional results indicate that inequality and poverty are understated, and that, under certain assumptions, both …

Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household surveys by National Statistics Institutes in twelve African and Latin …

years, provides the income and employment data used in the construction of social welfare indicators, such as poverty … inequality. Indeed there is no reason to privilege national accounts over household surveys in the analysis of poverty and the … incomes of the poorest. Using the Casen 2011, this study assesses the impact of income adjustments on the poverty headcount …

the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from … 42% to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured with imputed income increases only from 36% to 40%, a much lower …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to generate a time series … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …