Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201710 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IAI Discussion Papers No. 241
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (IAI), Göttingen
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the degree of association in the identification of the poor between the standard monetary FGT measure and the Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index. For this purpose, we use a measure of redundancy in the identification of the poor between the two poverty measures (R0). In Chile, over the past 25 years, R0 has declined at a rate of 1.5% per year. The decline is unimportant during the 1990s, a decade of rapid economic growth, while it is notable thereafter, in a period characterized by modest economic growth and the progressive introduction and deepening of social policies. The conditional correlation between socio-economic and demographic characteristics with R0 is examined at the province and household levels. After controlling for the household non-eligibility across some of the indicators of the multidimensional poverty index, we find that the divergence in the identification of the poor can be explained by education improvements, increasing urbanization, and reduction in the household size. Consequently, the divergent identification of the poor seems to be a real process which is not randomly distributed across the population. On the basis of our results, we hypothesize that this divergence is a general phenomenon that tends to occur in countries undergoing demographic transition, urbanization, and progress in education. If so, and given the fact that poverty alleviation strategies are adopted partly on the basis of poverty statistics, the diverging identification of the poor might have distributive consequences for the poor themselves.
Subjects: 
Multidimensional Poverty
Monetary Poverty
Poor Identification
Measures of association
JEL: 
D63
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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