Do official multidimensional poverty measures in Latin America reflect the priorities of people living in poverty?

Jhonatan Clausen (), Silvana Vargas () and Nicolás Barrantes ()
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Jhonatan Clausen: Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PUCP; Instituto de Desarrollo Humano de América Latina PUCP
Silvana Vargas: Department of Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú PUCP; Instituto de Desarrollo Humano de América Latina PUCP
Nicolás Barrantes: Department of Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Instituto de Desarrollo Humano de América Latina PUCP

Ensayos de Política Económica, 2018, vol. 2, issue 6, 15-34

Abstract: This article analyses the design process of official multidimensional poverty measures in Colombia, Chile, El Salvador and Mexico, and discusses the extent to which such processes have been able to reflect the priorities of people living in poverty. We argue that although these countries have faced limitations in conducting a «pure participatory-driven» strategy, they have advanced towards measuring poverty in a way that better reflects what disadvantaged people consider to be an impoverished life. We propose guidelines to continue improving the design of official multidimensional poverty measures and make them more open to information on what people value and more sensitive to public reasoning.

Keywords: Multidimensional poverty; capability approach; social policy; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 I32 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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