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This paper joins in the debate on the size of the middle class in Latin America, providing an analysis of its structure and characteristics. Using several measurements, it finds that 40-60 percent of Latin American households are middle class, a share which has consolidated over the past decade....
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poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this …
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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 …
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Very few studies currently exist on poverty adaptation to subjective well-being. We offer analysis on poverty … adaptation for Russia, a middle-income country in transition, using panel data for 2001-2017. We found no poverty adaption for … life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer poverty spells being associated with more dissatisfaction. Similar …
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poverty and gender inequality by proposing an individual-based multidimensional poverty measure for Nicaragua and estimate the … gender differentials in the incidence, intensity, and inequality of multidimensional poverty. Overall, we find that in … women's poverty. In this new context, gender gaps become much more substantial, and poverty and inequality are unambiguously …
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insensitive to inequality among the multi-dimensionally poor individuals, a serious defect of any poverty measure. Consequently …", and targets 1.2 and 10.1 of the SDGs, we stress that the mainstream approach to multidimensional poverty measurement in … developing countries faces some deficiencies to properly monitor progress in multidimensional poverty reduction, mainly because …
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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 …
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Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus yield a biased assessment of individual poverty and poverty by age or gender. In this paper we first show … that the direction of the bias depends on how these measures use individual data to determine the poverty status of …
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This paper develops the link between poverty and inequality by focussing on a class of poverty indices (some of them … parameter that captures the ethical sensitivity of poverty measurement to "exclusion" or "relative-deprivation" aversion. We … also show how the indices can be readily used to predict the impact of growth on poverty. An illustration using LIS data …
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