A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America

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Santos, Maria Emma; Villatoro, Pablo
Año de publicación
2018
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This paper proposes a new Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America. The index combines monetary and non-monetary indicators, updates deprivation cut-offs for certain traditional unsatisfied basic needs indicators and includes some new indicators, aiming to maximize regional comparability within the data constraints. The index is estimated for 17 countries of the region at two points in time—one around 2005 and the other around 2012. Overall, we estimate about 28 percent of people are multidimensionally poor in 2012 in the region. We find statistically significant reductions of poverty in most countries, both in terms of incidence and intensity over the period under analysis. However, important disparities between rural and urban areas remain. Statistical scrutiny of the index suggests that it captures the state of poverty relatively well while maintaining a certain parsimony and being highly robust to changes in weights, indicators, and poverty cut-off.
Fil: Santos, Maria Emma. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentina. Comisión Económica para América Latina; Argentina
Fil: Villatoro, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentina. Comisión Económica para América Latina; Argentina
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Latin America
Multidimensional Poverty
Poverty Measurement
Sdgs
Unsatisfied Basic Needs
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spelling A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin AmericaSantos, Maria EmmaVillatoro, PabloLatin AmericaMultidimensional PovertyPoverty MeasurementSdgsUnsatisfied Basic Needshttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5This paper proposes a new Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America. The index combines monetary and non-monetary indicators, updates deprivation cut-offs for certain traditional unsatisfied basic needs indicators and includes some new indicators, aiming to maximize regional comparability within the data constraints. The index is estimated for 17 countries of the region at two points in time—one around 2005 and the other around 2012. Overall, we estimate about 28 percent of people are multidimensionally poor in 2012 in the region. We find statistically significant reductions of poverty in most countries, both in terms of incidence and intensity over the period under analysis. However, important disparities between rural and urban areas remain. Statistical scrutiny of the index suggests that it captures the state of poverty relatively well while maintaining a certain parsimony and being highly robust to changes in weights, indicators, and poverty cut-off.Fil: Santos, Maria Emma. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentina. Comisión Económica para América Latina; ArgentinaFil: Villatoro, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentina. Comisión Económica para América Latina; ArgentinaWiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc2018-03info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/50194Santos, Maria Emma; Villatoro, Pablo; A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; Review of Income and Wealth; 64; 1; 3-2018; 52-821475-4991CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/roiw.12275info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/roiw.12275info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-29T09:34:35Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/50194instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-29 09:34:35.336CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
title A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
spellingShingle A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
Santos, Maria Emma
Latin America
Multidimensional Poverty
Poverty Measurement
Sdgs
Unsatisfied Basic Needs
title_short A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
title_full A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
title_fullStr A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
title_full_unstemmed A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
title_sort A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Santos, Maria Emma
Villatoro, Pablo
author Santos, Maria Emma
author_facet Santos, Maria Emma
Villatoro, Pablo
author_role author
author2 Villatoro, Pablo
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Latin America
Multidimensional Poverty
Poverty Measurement
Sdgs
Unsatisfied Basic Needs
topic Latin America
Multidimensional Poverty
Poverty Measurement
Sdgs
Unsatisfied Basic Needs
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper proposes a new Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America. The index combines monetary and non-monetary indicators, updates deprivation cut-offs for certain traditional unsatisfied basic needs indicators and includes some new indicators, aiming to maximize regional comparability within the data constraints. The index is estimated for 17 countries of the region at two points in time—one around 2005 and the other around 2012. Overall, we estimate about 28 percent of people are multidimensionally poor in 2012 in the region. We find statistically significant reductions of poverty in most countries, both in terms of incidence and intensity over the period under analysis. However, important disparities between rural and urban areas remain. Statistical scrutiny of the index suggests that it captures the state of poverty relatively well while maintaining a certain parsimony and being highly robust to changes in weights, indicators, and poverty cut-off.
Fil: Santos, Maria Emma. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentina. Comisión Económica para América Latina; Argentina
Fil: Villatoro, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Economía. Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales del Sur; Argentina. Comisión Económica para América Latina; Argentina
description This paper proposes a new Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America. The index combines monetary and non-monetary indicators, updates deprivation cut-offs for certain traditional unsatisfied basic needs indicators and includes some new indicators, aiming to maximize regional comparability within the data constraints. The index is estimated for 17 countries of the region at two points in time—one around 2005 and the other around 2012. Overall, we estimate about 28 percent of people are multidimensionally poor in 2012 in the region. We find statistically significant reductions of poverty in most countries, both in terms of incidence and intensity over the period under analysis. However, important disparities between rural and urban areas remain. Statistical scrutiny of the index suggests that it captures the state of poverty relatively well while maintaining a certain parsimony and being highly robust to changes in weights, indicators, and poverty cut-off.
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Santos, Maria Emma; Villatoro, Pablo; A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; Review of Income and Wealth; 64; 1; 3-2018; 52-82
1475-4991
CONICET Digital
CONICET
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identifier_str_mv Santos, Maria Emma; Villatoro, Pablo; A Multidimensional Poverty Index for Latin America; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; Review of Income and Wealth; 64; 1; 3-2018; 52-82
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