Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries

This paper studies multidimensional poverty for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay for the period 1992–2006. The approach overcomes the limitations of the two traditional methods of poverty analysis in Latin America (income-based and unmet basic needs) by combining income with...

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Published in:Social indicators research 2013-06, Vol.112 (2), p.291-314
Main Authors: Battiston, Diego, Cruces, Guillermo, Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe, Lugo, Maria Ana, Santos, Maria Emma
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Argentina
Attendance
Attendance Patterns
Basic needs
Brazil
Children
Chile
Comparative Analysis
Countries
Cross Cultural Studies
Datasets
Departments
Deprivation
Developing Nations
Economics
Education
Educational Attainment
El Salvador
Family Characteristics
Foreign Countries
Fuzzy sets
Heads of Households
Households
Housing
Human Geography
Income
Income approach
Initiatives
Latin America
Latin Americans
Living Standards
Measurement
Mexico
Microeconomics
Poverty
Predictor Variables
Principal components analysis
Public Health
Quality of Life Research
Research Methodology
Rural Areas
Sanitation
Schools
Social Indicators
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic Influences
Sociology
Sociometric Techniques
Statistical Analysis
Structural Equation Models
Term weighting
Transfer Programs
Urban Areas
Urban Poverty
Uruguay
Water
World Bank
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Summary:This paper studies multidimensional poverty for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay for the period 1992–2006. The approach overcomes the limitations of the two traditional methods of poverty analysis in Latin America (income-based and unmet basic needs) by combining income with five other dimensions: school attendance for children, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. The results allow a fuller understanding of the evolution of poverty in the selected countries. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico and Chile experienced significant reductions in multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil and Mexico, and rural areas of Chile display significantly higher and more simultaneous deprivations than urban areas of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. In all countries, deprivation in access to proper sanitation and education of the household head are the highest contributors to overall multidimensional poverty.
ISSN:0303-8300
1573-0921
DOI:10.1007/s11205-013-0249-3