Descomposición entre e intra áreas geográficas de los indicadores de pobreza en Colombia

Roberto Mauricio Sánchez Torres

Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to perform a geographical decomposition of poverty indicators in Colombia by geographical areas. The first component is the size of the poverty that is explained by the lack of incomes that are related to a specific threshold of a geographical area (within); the second component is the result of an absolute homogeneous poverty line (between). It is found that the differences in poverty indicators among geographical areas depend on homogeneous normative threshold that is taken as reference: a low threshold entails poverty indicators that are explained by the lack of incomes within each geographical area, while a high threshold entails poverty indicators that are explained by the differences in lack of incomes between geographical areas.

Keywords: poverty in Colombia; poverty indicators; decomposition of poverty within and between geographical areas; poverty thresholds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20
Date: 2014-07
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://fce.unal.edu.co/media/files/CentroEditoria ... ntos-economia-52.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:col:000176:022954

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Unal ().