Esta presentación discute el diagnóstico de las condiciones anteriores del programa Mejoramiento de las Encuestas y la Medición de Condiciones de Vida (MECOVI). Se incluye: una descripción del programa, resultados por componente del programa, mejor información para mejores mediciones,...

This presentation was commissioned by the Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the VIII Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on April 24th and 25th, 2003.

El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar la importancia que tiene el uso de información desagregada para dar seguimiento a la agenda que define los Objetivos de desarrollo del Milenio (ODM). Se deduce que los ODM ofrecen una oportunidad para avanzar con propuestas que contribuyan a reducir la...

This document was prepared in the context of the Program for the "Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean" (ISLC/MECOVI). Bolivia ranks among Latin America's so-called "early adjusters". While Bolivia's economic reforms, which began in...

In this paper we will not intend to derive improved poverty measures for the Americas. Our pretensions are much more modest. The purposes of the paper are to provide an inventory of available poverty estimates for the countries of the region derived from a variety of studies and data sources...

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the existence of economies of scale in consumption, methods for treating missing and zero incomes, and different adjustments to handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity...

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the existence of economies of scale in consumption, methods for treating missing and zero incomes, and different adjustments to handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity...

(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se pone a prueba la sensibilidad de los índices de pobreza a la selección de escalas de equivalencia de adultos, suposiciones sobre la existencia de economías de escala en el consumo, métodos para tratar la pérdida de ingreso o...

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the existence of economies of scale in consumption, methods for treating missing and zero incomes, and different adjustments to handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity...

Desde 1996 em sucessivas edições anuais, o Informe MERCOSUL vem acompanhando os aspectos mais importantes do desenvolvimento econômico e comercial desta entidade regional, criada pelo Tratado de Assunção, de 1991. O trabalho aqui apresentado se inscreve em um âmbito mais amplo das...