Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries

Battistón, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe López; Lugo, María Ana; Santos, María Emma

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“…Nevertheless, the poverty indicators estimated using the proposed relative thresholds are close to those obtained for some normative lines used in several studies (Battiston et al 2013 This means that the levels and variations of poverty indicators between the two years considered are different from those obtained using fixed thresholds. Furthermore, this relative cutoff has full meaning because it allows those people who deviate from the standard behaviour of the population to be identifyied as poor.…”

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Identifying the Multidimensional Poor in Developed Countries Using Relative Thresholds: An Application to Spanish Data

2016

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In order to contribute to providing a methodology to ensure objectivity and transparency in the measurement of multidimensional poverty, this paper proposes a new threshold for the identification of the multidimensional poor which is also applicable to each of the dimensions of poverty, suitable for identifying the severely poor in developed countries. This new methodology is applied to analyse the evolution of material deprivation in Spain during the period of economic crisis, comparing the results with those obtained using other traditional approaches.Key words: Multidimensional poverty, counting approach, poverty lines, Spain. 2 IntroductionIn recent decades, a broad academic and institutional consensus has emerged regarding the need to study poverty as a multidimensional phenomenon, integrating material deprivation and social exclusion concerns (Sen 1985) in aggregated indicators. However, despite this consensus, there are still many methodological issues when measuring multidimensional poverty that are imbued with subjectivity and a lack of transparency. Among other negative outcomes, this prevents international comparisons from being conducted. In order to construct an objective methodology for measuring severe multidimensional poverty and deprivation, in this paper, a new relative threshold for identifying multidimensional poor or deprived segments is proposed especially suited for developed countries. Using this new threshold, we have quantified and analysed the evolution of material deprivation in Spain during the economic crisis, comparing the results with those obtained using absolute and subjective thresholds proposed in the literature by other authors. order to quantify the level of poverty. In this approach, a set of highly empirical contributions summarises information of all the dimensions in a single variable using multivariate statistical methods (Townsend 1979;Desai and Shah 1988; Guio et al. 2009;Ayala, et al. 2011).Another set of contributions, which take into account the joint distribution of the poverty dimensions, has focused on the proposal of poverty indices that combine information on several dimensions (Bourguignon and Chakravarty 2003; Lemmi and Betti 2006;Foster 2007 and2011a). These contributions include those based on the counting approach, introducedby Atkinson (2003) and are suitable for both qualitative and quantitative variables. This approach, which concentrates on counting the number of dimensions in which people suffer poverty or deprivation, helps overcome the disadvantages of most of the measures that can only be calculated for quantitative variables.Within the framework of the counting approach, Foster (2007 and2011a) propose a methodology, connected with the one-dimensional analysis of the phenomenon, that relies on a method for identifying the poor or deprived and another for aggregating the data and summarising the information on multiple dimensions in one scalar. The identification method, known as dual cutoff, can be based on two kinds of thresholds. The fir...

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Identifying the Multidimensional Poor in Developed Countries Using Relative Thresholds: An Application to Spanish Data

2016

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“…Ringen (1988) advocated for the use of both income and deprivation. Various authors have emphasized that the combination monetary and non-monetary components would be able to improve the measurement and understanding of poverty (Betti & Verma, 2004;Nolan & Whelan, 2009;Battiston et al, 2013;Bruck & Kebede, 2013;Yu, 2013;Siani, 2015;Krishnan, 2015;Angulo, Diaz & Pardo, 2016;Kaptan, 2016;Martinez-Martinez et al, 2016). Local literature that also uses a hybrid measure includes Klasen, 2000;Noble, Barnes, Wright & Roberts, 2010;Statistics South Africa, 2014b).…”

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The threshold effects of household indebtedness on multidimensional poverty

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Ikhide

2017

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DeclarationBy submitting this dissertation electronically, I declare that the entirety of the work contained therein is my own, original work, that I am the sole author thereof (save to the extent explicitly otherwise stated), that reproduction and publication thereof by Stellenbosch University will not infringe any third party rights and that I have not previously in its entirety or in part submitted it for obtaining any qualification.This dissertation includes two published and one accepted but not yet published original papers in peer-reviewed international journals. The fourth paper representing chapter eight is ready for submission for peer review. The development and writing of the papers (published and unpublished) were the principal responsibility of myself and, for each of the cases where this is not the case, a declaration is included in the dissertation indicating the nature and extent of the contributions of co-authors. AbstractGlobal household indebtedness has reached unprecedented levels over the past few decades.The household sector has had to cope with significant losses in income and wealth as well as the burden of debt service since the beginning of the financial crisis. Research focus on this phenomenon, together with its social implications, has grown. This study uses the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) data to empirically investigate the effects of household debt on multidimensional poverty. This was achieved through four independent research papers meant to address different angles of the subject. Chapter 5 provides a snapshot of the prevalence of over-indebtedness, using various international indicators and the National Credit Regulator (NCR) indicator, and describes which households are over-indebted. A total of eight percent of South African households are overindebted, and 61.4 percent of those households are found in the lowest income category (R0 -R2 000), spending more than 45 percent of their household income on debt repayments, which is beyond levels that are considered sustainable. The alarming revelation is that, according to the unsecured debt indicator, 15.2 percent of households are over-indebted, while 11 percent of households are driven below the relative income poverty line after making debt repayments. Stellenbosch University https://scholar.sun.ac.za 3The racial distribution indicates that households headed by Africans are overrepresented (79%).Most over-indebted households are found amongst those who own their places of residence (78.6%), do not receive government grants (71.7%), are male (53.8%), and have an unemployed household head (53.5%).Chapter 6 examines the presence of thresholds in the debt-poverty nexus at micro level, i.e. the tipping point above which debt is associated with more multidimensional poverty. By applying the Generalised Additive Model (GAM) using regression splines, the study finds the existence of critical tipping points between household debt service-to-income ratio and multidimensional poverty along with other explanatory variables (age...

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“…Monetary indicators are considered much more likely to fluctuate in the short term than non-monetary indicators are (Clark and Hulme, 2005;Hulme and Shepherd, 2003) as an increase in monetary resources and may not immediately translate into improvements in non-monetary outcomes (or vice versa). Some consider monetary poverty measures a reflection of a short-term condition, while multidimensional poverty indicators might be more representative of a permanent situation (Ayala et al, 2011) or structural condition of poverty (Battiston et al, 2013).…”

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Poor Children in Rich Households and Vice Versa: A Blurred Picture or Hidden Realities?

Roelen

2018

Eur J Dev Res

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An expanding evidence base suggests that children experiencing monetary and multidimensional poverty are not the same. This article breaks new ground by providing a unique mixed methods investigation of drivers of child poverty mismatch in Ethiopia and Vietnam, considering the role of measurement error and individualistic and structural factors. The analysis capitalises on large-scale secondary quantitative panel data and combines this with purposively collected primary qualitative data in both countries. It finds that factors at the household and structural level can mediate the effects of monetary poverty in terms of multidimensional poverty and vice versa, but that the size and sign of these effects are specific to place and time. The policy mix aiming to reduce all forms of child poverty need to be targeted on the basis of a multidimensional assessment of poverty and reflect the complex and contextspecific interactions between determinants of child poverty.Une base de données croissante suggère que les enfants qui connaissent une pauvreté monétaire sont différents de ceux qui connaissent une pauvreté multidimensionnelle. Cet article ouvre une nouvelle voie en fournissant une analyse unique sur les facteurs entrainant un déséquilibre de la pauvreté infantile en É thiopie et au Vietnam, en utilisant des méthodes mixtes et en considérant le rôle de l'erreur de mesure et des facteurs individualistes et structurels. L'analyse s'appuie sur des données d'un panel quantitatif secondaire à grande échelle et les combines avec des données qualitatives primaires recueillies délib-érément dans les deux pays. Elle constate que les facteurs au niveau des ménages et de la structure peuvent agir comme médiateurs des effets de la pauvreté monétaire en termes de pauvreté multidimensionnelle et vice et versa, mais que le taille et le signe de ces effets sont spécifiques au lieu et au temps. Le dosage des politiques visant à réduire toutes les formes de pauvreté infantile doit être ciblé sur la base d'une évaluation multidimensionnelle de la pauvreté et refléter les interactions complexes et contextuelles entre les déterminants de la pauvreté infantile.

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Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in Six Latin American Countries

Cited by 129 publications

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Identifying the Multidimensional Poor in Developed Countries Using Relative Thresholds: An Application to Spanish Data

Identifying the Multidimensional Poor in Developed Countries Using Relative Thresholds: An Application to Spanish Data

The threshold effects of household indebtedness on multidimensional poverty

Poor Children in Rich Households and Vice Versa: A Blurred Picture or Hidden Realities?

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