Multidimensional poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: new evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Leonardo Gasparini, Walter Sosa-Escudero, Mariana Marchionni and Sergio Olivieri
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The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, vol. 11, issue 2, 195-214

Abstract: This paper studies poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean from a multidimensional perspective, exploiting the Gallup World Poll, a survey that provides a unique opportunity to perform intercountry comparisons. By applying factor analysis we find that welfare can be appropriately summarized by three dimensions: income, subjective welfare and “basic needs”. Another finding is that the US$ 1 line appears to be a reasonable cut-off value to measure food deprivation. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013

Keywords: Latin America; Caribbean; Deprivation; Poverty; Welfare; Multidimensional; Gallup (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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