Estimating poverty over time and space: Construction of a time-variant poverty index for Costa Rica

Romina Cavatassi, Benjamin Davis and Leslie Lipper

No 23791, ESA Working Papers from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA)

Abstract: This paper presents the construction of a spatially explicit, nationally disaggregated measure of poverty over time in Costa Rica. The paper first describes the two possible methods considered for the construction of a poverty map: principal component ana

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2004-11-20
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.23791

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