Descomposiciones de los cambios en la pobreza en Colombia 2002-2012

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ID6166990
AuthorsRoberto Mauricio Sánchez Torres (0000-0001-6684-8707, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author)
Year2015
Issue75
Pages349-398
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Desarrollo y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0120-3584 • E-ISSN: 1900-7760
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.13043/dys.75.9
OpenAlexW2194439553
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited16

Poverty in Latin America has gone down in the last decade. That fact was led by a set of key aspects: economic growth, labor market and its institutions, and social programs based on cash transfers. The purpose of this paper is to perform decompositions of changes in poverty that was taken place in Colombia from 2002 to 2012, and analyze how growth, redistribution, demographic changes, education, the labor market situation and the non-labor income, led to reduce of poverty. It is found that the main elements that have reduced the poverty in Colombia are growth of incomes and the increase in labor income, and recently the increase in employment rate and non-labor income

Geography · Political science · Economic and Social Development · Economic Theory and Policy · Income, Poverty, and Inequality

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