The paper examined the methodology used for measuring the country's poverty line and poverty rate. It finds that the poverty line was not based on the cost of meeting an acceptable or minimum standard of living or of meeting basic needs by which to classify families as poor as is customarily...

The paper examined the methodology used for measuring the country’s poverty line and poverty rate. It finds that the poverty line was not based on the cost of meeting an acceptable or minimum standard of living or of meeting basic needs by which to classify families as poor as is customarily...

Los estudios de pobreza, desde el punto de vista de la metodología objetiva, suelen basarse en los ingresos de las familias, índices de calidad de vida y necesidades insatisfechas, para caracterizar a ciertos grupos sociales como pobres. Por otro lado, existen los estudios subjetivos que...

The Gini index is often used to measure the income inequality presented inside a specified group of individuals and sometimes also for evaluating the “poverty” degree of this population. In this article we show that Gini’s index is not always so adequate to measure the poverty level of an...