Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90444 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 9
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Courant Research Centre - Poverty, Equity and Growth (CRC-PEG), Göttingen
Abstract: 
In this paper, we analyze how the distribution of selected non-income welfare indicators changed between 1997 and 2003 in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health, education, and subjective welfare using two alternative weighing techniques: polychoric principal components and normatively selected weights. Results show that while income and expenditures fluctuated according to economic growth, reflecting the effects of the 1999 economic crisis, non-income indicators had minor changes. While income and expenditures decreased for all income percentiles, and relatively more for the richest, the non-income dimensions stagnated and remained in 2003 as unequally distributed as in 1997.
Subjects: 
Pro-Poor Growth
Inequality
Welfare Measurement
Multidimensionality of Poverty
Latin America
Colombia
JEL: 
D30
I30
O10
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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