How Sensitive Is Regional Poverty Measurement in Latin America to the Value of the Poverty Line?

Rural Poverty in Latin America

Job Quality and Poverty in Latin America

Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement

Opportunity-Sensitive Poverty Measurement We axiomatically characterize two classes of poverty measures which are sensitive to inequality of opportunity – one a strict subset of the other. The proposed indices are sensitive not only to income shortfalls from the poverty line, but also to differences in opportunities faced by people with different pre-determined characteristics, such as race or ...

Mobile Telephony in Latin America: New Opportunities to Reduce Poverty?

The strong pattern of inequality that marks Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is repeated, although with different characteristics, in access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). Although it is not currently possible to demonstrate empirically, in great detail, that mobile telephony is making a substantive contribution to poverty reduction in LAC, we aim to shed light on ce...