Resumen

VILLATORO, Pablo  y  SANTOS, María Emma. Who is poor? An analysis of how people living in poverty are identified in Latin America. Prob. Des [online]. 2019, vol.50, n.199, pp.3-29.  Epub 19-Jun-2020. ISSN 0301-7036.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iiec.20078951e.2019.199.68414.

This article examines empirically the soundness of how people living in poverty are identified, through three types of analysis and utilizing data from 2012 for five Latin American countries. The results demonstrate that the monetary method and the multidimensional non-monetary method alone are insufficient as a way to identify poverty in a comprehensive way. It is therefore appropriate to use intermediate poverty thresholds for the multidimensional index, and typification of poverty groups within these countries is sensitive to the selection of the threshold. These findings reaffirm the need to reach a consensus regarding the definition of poverty in the region's countries.

Palabras llave : poverty; monetary method; multidimensional non-monetary method; identification methods; social deprivation.

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