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 …

conceptual and empirical issues on the measurement of trends in wellbeing, poverty, and inequality, illustrated for Bolivia and …Reducing poverty and increasing wellbeing in developing countries have become central aims of both the national policy … has agreed to focus on poverty reduction and the reduction of deprivation in its many dimensions. This book investigates …

Over two centuries, Colombia transferred vast quantities of land, equivalent to the entire UK landmass, mainly to … landless peasants. And yet Colombia retains one of the highest concentrations of land ownership in the world. Why? We show that … land reform's effects are highly bimodal. Most of Colombia's 1100+ municipalities lack a landed elite. Here, rural …

development; Sen’s capability approach; poverty; mortality; economic insecurity …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …