POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTS

This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in Latin America. In 1998, about a third of the population was poor, and one sixth extreme poor. This represents 179 million poor people, of which 89 million lived in extreme poverty. The share of the population in poverty has decreased in the 1990s, and...

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Autores principales:	WODON,QUENTIN, CASTRO-FERNANDEZ,RODRIGO, LEE,KIHOON, LOPEZ-ACEVEDO,GLADYS, SIAENS,CORINNE, SOBRADO,CARLOS, TRE,JEAN-PHILIPPE
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2001
Materias:	Poverty Education Employment
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-682120010114000022002-01-21POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTSWODON,QUENTINCASTRO-FERNANDEZ,RODRIGOLEE,KIHOONLOPEZ-ACEVEDO,GLADYSSIAENS,CORINNESOBRADO,CARLOSTRE,JEAN-PHILIPPE Poverty Education Employment This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in Latin America. In 1998, about a third of the population was poor, and one sixth extreme poor. This represents 179 million poor people, of which 89 million lived in extreme poverty. The share of the population in poverty has decreased in the 1990s, and it is now back to its level of the mid 1980s. But due to population growth, the number of the poor has increased over the last fifteen years. The paper also investigates the impact of household characteristics on poverty, including demographics, education, employment, geographic location, migration, and ethnicity. Many of these characteristics have large impacts on per capita income and thereby on the probability of being poor or extremely poorinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileCuadernos de economía v.38 n.114 20012001-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-68212001011400002en10.4067/S0717-68212001011400002
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description	This paper analyzes the evolution of poverty in Latin America. In 1998, about a third of the population was poor, and one sixth extreme poor. This represents 179 million poor people, of which 89 million lived in extreme poverty. The share of the population in poverty has decreased in the 1990s, and it is now back to its level of the mid 1980s. But due to population growth, the number of the poor has increased over the last fifteen years. The paper also investigates the impact of household characteristics on poverty, including demographics, education, employment, geographic location, migration, and ethnicity. Many of these characteristics have large impacts on per capita income and thereby on the probability of being poor or extremely poor
author	WODON,QUENTIN CASTRO-FERNANDEZ,RODRIGO LEE,KIHOON LOPEZ-ACEVEDO,GLADYS SIAENS,CORINNE SOBRADO,CARLOS TRE,JEAN-PHILIPPE
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title	POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTS
title_short	POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTS
title_full	POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTS
title_fullStr	POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTS
title_full_unstemmed	POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTS
title_sort	poverty in latin america: trends (1986-1998) and determinants
publisher	Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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POVERTY IN LATIN AMERICA: TRENDS (1986-1998) AND DETERMINANTS

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