How Sensitive Is Regional Poverty Measurement in Latin America to the Value of the Poverty Line?
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- Andrés Castañeda & Santiago Garriga & Leonardo Gasparini & Leonardo Lucchetti & Daniel Valderrama, 2018. "How Sensitive is Regional Poverty Measurement in Latin America to the Value of the Poverty Line?," CEDLAS, Working Papers 0233, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
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Poverty; poverty lines; purchasing power parity; Latin America;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- F01 - International Economics - - General - - - Global Outlook
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