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Which way out of poverty? the human capital versus human capabilities approaches
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2015-06)
Poverty is a global issue that affects people in different ways. The purpose of this article is to explore the two main theories that address poverty and the potential for overcoming it, which are the human capital and ...
Measuring Acute Poverty in the Developing World: Robustness and Scope of the Multidimensional Poverty Index
(Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, 2013-03)
This paper presents the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), a measure of acute poverty, understood as a person’s inability to meet simultaneously minimum international standards in indicators related to the Millennium ...
Measuring Chronic Poverty
(Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, 2012-08)
A new class of chronic poverty measures is constructed that builds upon Jalan and Ravallion (1998) but does not require resources in different periods to be perfect substitutes when identifying the chronically poor. We use ...
How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?
(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2011)
Acute Multidimensional Poverty: A New Index for Developing Countries
(OPHI, 2010-07)
This paper presents a new Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for 104 developing countries. It is the first time multidimensional poverty is estimated using micro datasets (household surveys) for such a large number of ...
Dimensions of poverty and gender policies
(2005-04)
This article holds that poverty is multidimensional in nature, and
that the ways to measure it and the policies to fight it are determined by how it is defined. After reviewing various definitions, the article notes that ...
Growth and Poverty Revisited from a Multidimensional Perspective
(Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, 2016-09)
The actual impact of economic growth on poverty reduction is of fundamental importance to the development agenda, especially in view of the Sustainable Development Goals. So far, studies have focused on income poverty. ...
The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality: Oportunidades in Mexico
(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2011)
Spatio-temporal co-occurrence of hotspots of tuberculosis, poverty and air pollution in Lima, Peru
(BioMed Central, 2020)
Growing evidence suggests pollution and other environmental factors have a role in the development of tuberculosis (TB), however, such studies have never been conducted in Peru. Considering the association between air ...
Human capital and regional poverty in PeruCapital humano y pobreza regional en Perú
(El Colegio de Sonora, 2019)