How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?

Autores
Castañeda, R. Andrés; Gasparini, Leonardo; Garriga, Santiago; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Valderrama, Daniel
Año de publicación
2018
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This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America, as well as the recently updated values of the national purchasing power parity conversion factors from the 2011 International Comparison Program, and a set of harmonized household surveys. By using 3 and 6 US dollars per person a day at 2011 PPP as the extreme and total poverty lines for Latin America, this paper illustrates the sensitiveness of poverty rates to changes of the values of the poverty lines as a result of the recent update of the PPP values, the period of reference, and the relative cost of living across the countries in the region. The poverty lines with the 2011 PPP values lead to an increase in total poverty rates in Latin America when compared to the 2005 PPP values, while they leave the extreme poverty rate unaffected. In general, country-specific poverty rankings remain fairly stable to the values of the poverty lines selected.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
poverty
poverty lines
purchasing power parity
América Latina
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spelling How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?Castañeda, R. AndrésGasparini, LeonardoGarriga, SantiagoLucchetti, LeonardoValderrama, DanielCiencias Económicaspovertypoverty linespurchasing power parityAmérica LatinaThis paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America, as well as the recently updated values of the national purchasing power parity conversion factors from the 2011 International Comparison Program, and a set of harmonized household surveys. By using 3 and 6 US dollars per person a day at 2011 PPP as the extreme and total poverty lines for Latin America, this paper illustrates the sensitiveness of poverty rates to changes of the values of the poverty lines as a result of the recent update of the PPP values, the period of reference, and the relative cost of living across the countries in the region. The poverty lines with the 2011 PPP values lead to an increase in total poverty rates in Latin America when compared to the 2005 PPP values, while they leave the extreme poverty rate unaffected. In general, country-specific poverty rankings remain fairly stable to the values of the poverty lines selected.Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)2018-08info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperinfo:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersionDocumento de trabajohttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042info:ar-repo/semantics/documentoDeTrabajoapplication/pdfhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/68335enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.cedlas.econo.unlp.edu.ar/wp/wp-content/uploads/doc_cedlas233.pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/1853-0168info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)reponame:SEDICI (UNLP)instname:Universidad Nacional de La Platainstacron:UNLP2025-09-29T11:10:35Zoai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/68335Institucionalhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/Universidad públicaNo correspondehttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/oai/snrdalira@sedici.unlp.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:13292025-09-29 11:10:35.727SEDICI (UNLP) - Universidad Nacional de La Platafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
title How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
spellingShingle How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
Castañeda, R. Andrés
Ciencias Económicas
poverty
poverty lines
purchasing power parity
América Latina
title_short How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
title_full How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
title_fullStr How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
title_full_unstemmed How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
title_sort How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Castañeda, R. Andrés
Gasparini, Leonardo
Garriga, Santiago
Lucchetti, Leonardo
Valderrama, Daniel
author Castañeda, R. Andrés
author_facet Castañeda, R. Andrés
Gasparini, Leonardo
Garriga, Santiago
Lucchetti, Leonardo
Valderrama, Daniel
author_role author
author2 Gasparini, Leonardo
Garriga, Santiago
Lucchetti, Leonardo
Valderrama, Daniel
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
poverty
poverty lines
purchasing power parity
América Latina
topic Ciencias Económicas
poverty
poverty lines
purchasing power parity
América Latina
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America, as well as the recently updated values of the national purchasing power parity conversion factors from the 2011 International Comparison Program, and a set of harmonized household surveys. By using 3 and 6 US dollars per person a day at 2011 PPP as the extreme and total poverty lines for Latin America, this paper illustrates the sensitiveness of poverty rates to changes of the values of the poverty lines as a result of the recent update of the PPP values, the period of reference, and the relative cost of living across the countries in the region. The poverty lines with the 2011 PPP values lead to an increase in total poverty rates in Latin America when compared to the 2005 PPP values, while they leave the extreme poverty rate unaffected. In general, country-specific poverty rankings remain fairly stable to the values of the poverty lines selected.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
description This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America, as well as the recently updated values of the national purchasing power parity conversion factors from the 2011 International Comparison Program, and a set of harmonized household surveys. By using 3 and 6 US dollars per person a day at 2011 PPP as the extreme and total poverty lines for Latin America, this paper illustrates the sensitiveness of poverty rates to changes of the values of the poverty lines as a result of the recent update of the PPP values, the period of reference, and the relative cost of living across the countries in the region. The poverty lines with the 2011 PPP values lead to an increase in total poverty rates in Latin America when compared to the 2005 PPP values, while they leave the extreme poverty rate unaffected. In general, country-specific poverty rankings remain fairly stable to the values of the poverty lines selected.
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