Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83704 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 2009-04
Publisher: 
Banco de México, Ciudad de México
Abstract (Translated): 
This article applies fuzzy set theory to measure three dimensions of poverty in Mexico: monetary poverty, non-monetary poverty of private goods and non-monetary poverty of public goods. By using those three dimensions, it is possible to build a joint membership to classify poverty in manifest, latent and non-poverty, which are computed for the three types of official poverty used in Mexico, for urban and rural areas and for the total of households and individuals in Mexico from 1994 to 2006. Moreover, confidence intervals are calculated for each estimation, which are used to establish if there are statistically significant changes along time. Results show that, although poverty in Mexico has diminished between 1994 and 2006, its evolution has been different according to the area and the type of poverty analyzed.
Subjects: 
multidimensional fuzzy poverty
monetary poverty
non monetary poverty
manifest poverty
latent poverty
JEL: 
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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