Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the … region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the … are distributed geographically within and across countries, (3) how poverty affects specific groups (e.g., women, children …

measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard … distribution restricts the evolution of the poverty measuresto be stable... …

In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index …, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …

Poverty continues to challenge Latin American and Caribbean countries, with approximately one in three people in the … region in poverty and one in seven in extreme poverty. This paper provides up-to-date insights through analysis of who the … are distributed geographically within and across countries, (3) how poverty affects specific groups (e.g., women, children …