Indicador de Bourguignon y Chakravarty de pobreza multidimensional en Colombia

Roberto Mauricio Sánchez Torres, Laura Antonia Maturana Cifuentes and Lizeth Dayana Manzano Murillo

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

Abstract: Poverty is one of the most important social problems around the world. It means that this issue should be essential in public policy and different strategies must be proposed in order to improve people’s lives and their welfare. The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative methodology of measurement of multidimensional poverty in Colombia, considering the Bourguignon and Chakravarty indicator and non-conventional dimensions and variables to identify poor households. One of the primary results is that even though headcount ratio of multidimensional poverty reduced remarkably from 2010 to 2016, gap and severity of multidimensional poverty did not decline in the same magnitude. Therefore, there are millions of households with several deprivations whose quality of live has not changed recently.

Keywords: Multidimensional poverty; quality of life; welfare; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I31 I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 2019-05
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