How Sensitive is Regional Poverty Measurement in Latin America to the Value of the Poverty Line?
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- Leonardo Lucchetti & Andrés Castañeda & Santiago Garriga & Leonardo Gasparini & Daniel Valderrama, 2018. "How Sensitive Is Regional Poverty Measurement in Latin America to the Value of the Poverty Line?," Economía Journal, The Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association - LACEA, vol. 0(Fall 2018), pages 33-58, November.
- Castañeda, R. Andrés & Garriga, Santiago & Gasparini, Leonardo & Lucchetti, Leonardo R. & Valderrama, Daniel, 2018. "How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 123379, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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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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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2018-08-13 (Development)
- NEP-LAM-2018-08-13 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LTV-2018-08-13 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
- NEP-MAC-2018-08-13 (Macroeconomics)
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