RT Journal Article
T1 Regional analysis of poverty in Ecuador: sensitivity to the choice of equivalence scales
A1 García Vélez, Diego F.
A1 Quezada Ruiz, Leidy D.
A1 Tituaña Castillo, María del Cisne
A1 Del Rio Rama, María de la Cruz
K1 53 Ciencias Económicas
K1 5302 Econometría
K1 6310.08 Pobreza
AB Economies of scale and equivalent consumption units, which are present in households,must be considered in the measurement of monetary poverty, in order to obtainindicators that approximate the reality of each household. Therefore, in this research,monetary poverty in Ecuador is measured and analyzed at the provincial level forthe period 2009–2016. It works with data from the National Survey of Employment,Unemployment and Underemployment (ENEMDU) and the INEC methodology is used tomeasure poverty, but per-capita income is replaced by equivalent income, generated byapplying a one-parameter scale (Buhmann et al., 1988) and two two-parameter scales(OECD, 1984; Cutler and Katz, 1992). The main results show that monetary povertyrates are significantly lower when equivalent income is applied, that there is high povertysensitivity depending on the equivalence scale used and that the provinces with thehighest levels of poverty are located in the Amazon region
PB Frontiers in Psychology
SN 16641078
YR 2022
FD 2022-03-30
LK http://hdl.handle.net/11093/4530
UL http://hdl.handle.net/11093/4530
LA spa
NO Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 877427 (2022)
DS Investigo
RD 11-dic-2024