Measuring Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of poverty lines for country poverty comparisons in Latin America and the Caribbean. The paper exploits a unique, comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date urban official extreme and moderate poverty lines across 18 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as the recent values of the national purchasing power parity conversion factors from the 2011 International Comparison Program and a set of harmonized household surveys that are part of the Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean project. Because of the dispersion of country-specific poverty lines, the paper concludes that the value of a regional poverty line largely depends on the selected aggregation method, which ends up having a direct impact on the estimation of regional extreme and moderate poverty headcounts.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Castaneda, R. Andres, Gasparini, Leonardo, Garriga, Santiago, Lucchetti, Leonardo R., Valderrama, Daniel
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016-04
Subjects:	REGIONAL POVERTY LINES, HOUSEHOLD INCOMES, HEADCOUNT RATIO, HOUSEHOLD SURVEY, CAPITA INCOME, POVERTY LINE, MEAN VALUE, INCOME, URBAN POVERTY, INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES, POVERTY ESTIMATES, POVERTY RATES, NATIONAL POVERTY LINE, REGIONAL LEVEL, FOOD COMPONENTS, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, COUNTERFACTUAL, DATA COLLECTION, CONSUMPTION DATA, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, HOUSING, POLITICAL ECONOMY, REGIONAL POVERTY LINE, GLOBAL LEVEL, RURAL INCOMES, NATIONAL POVERTY, EXTREME POVERTY LINE, CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE, INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINES, DEVELOPMENT GOALS, CITIES, GLOBAL POVERTY, MARGINAL EFFECT, SOCIAL PROGRAMS, INFLATION, MEASURES, POVERTY MEASURES, NATIONAL POVERTY LINES, REGION, POVERTY REDUCTION, REGIONAL POVERTY, FOOD BASKET, MEASURING POVERTY, PER CAPITA INCOME, CURRENCY, DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS, INTERNATIONAL POVERTY COMPARISONS, EXCHANGE RATES, NON-LINEAR FUNCTION, COST OF LIVING, HOUSEHOLD COMPOSITION, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, POVERTY STATUS, DATA ISSUES, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, POVERTY RANKINGS, RELATIVE PRICES, CHANGES IN POVERTY, REGIONAL DISPARITIES, FOOD ITEMS, WELFARE DISTRIBUTION, POVERTY LINES, CONSUMPTION, POVERTY COMPARISONS, CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION, POVERTY MEASUREMENT, DEPENDENT VARIABLE, DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION, INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS, DEVELOPING WORLD, DENSITY FUNCTION, RURAL POVERTY, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, URBAN AREAS, ABSOLUTE POVERTY, RURAL POVERTY LINES, RURAL, BASIC FOOD BASKET, REAL EXCHANGE RATE, LOCAL CURRENCY, ECONOMICS, RURAL REGIONS, CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION, DATA SETS, WEIGHT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, POVERTY INDICATORS, WELFARE MEASURES, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, REGIONS, EXTREME POVERTY, ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE, RURAL AREAS, POVERTY, REGIONAL AVERAGES, EXTREME POVERTY LINES, HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION, POPULATION, PURCHASING POWER PARITY, CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, HOUSEHOLD WELFARE, POLICY RESEARCH, POVERTY RATE, POOR, WELFARE MEASURE, EXCHANGE RATE, POVERTY ACROSS COUNTRIES, COUNTRY SPECIFIC, POVERTY ASSESSMENTS, URBAN POPULATION, DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS, HOUSEHOLD PER CAPITA INCOME, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, INEQUALITY, GROWTH,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26173987/measuring-poverty-latin-america-caribbean-methodological-considerations-estimating-empirical-regional-poverty-line https://hdl.handle.net/10986/24163
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