The aim of this paper is to analyze the existence of poverty traps in Argentina. In order to do it so, the income … overcome econometric challenges involved in testing for the presence of poverty traps: lack of long duration panels, attrition …, and measurement error in income. The results do find no evidence for the existence of poverty traps due to nonlinearities …

household vulnerability to poverty in Nicaragua is made. The household vulnerability is assessed as the probability that the … expected value of the logarithm of consumption is lower than the logarithm of certain threshold of poverty. Both official and … International poverty lines are considered. The estimation of the expected value and the variance of the logarithm of consumption …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … and Chile experienced significant reductions of 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 …

This paper studies the evolution of intertemporal poverty indicators in Argentina for the past 15 years. We exploit the … rotation scheme of the EPH survey to construct successive panels covering the period 1997-2012. This allows decomposing poverty … employment characteristics, while chronic poverty is particularly explained by structural characteristics, head and spouse …

This chapter discusses the measurement of monetary and multidimensional poverty in Latin America, and documents the … main patterns and trends. By providing an updated assessment of the level, changes and characteristics of poverty in the …

Poverty in Bolivia continues to be among the highest in Latin America despite decades of concerted national and …

mobility can have strong implications for both poverty reducation and long-run growth. Regressions based on household survey …, poverty tends to be fairly persistent, with many families remaining poor year after year and generation after generation. In … that could help increase social mobility, thereby reducing poverty and increasing long-run growth. …

The objective of the paper is to study the intra-generational mobility of income and poverty in Argentina to understand … the reasons of the stagnation in the pace of poverty reduction since 2011. Furthermore, the paper tries to characterize … and quantify the movements of individuals, and therefore it analyzes poverty duration, consecutive versus transient …