| Abstract | dc.description.abstract | The article attempts an assessment of the long-term evolution of poverty in the
four Latin American countries for which there is enough historical data. Argentina,
Colombia, Chile, and Mexico represent a variety of the different national
situations present in the region. Intertemporal comparability was preferred in
order to depict the long-term trends of poverty and alternative estimates of
poverty, corresponding to different degrees of deprivation, were used in order
to assess the robustness of those trends. With the same purpose, the results of
using poverty lines constant over time are compared with the trends obtained
using poverty lines shifted as a result of medium-term growth. On the other
hand, differences in income underestimation between surveys in each country
were accounted for, in order to improve intertemporal comparison. Resulting
country trends can be summarized as: poverty-reducing growth in the case of
Colombia, an interrupted trend of poverty reduction in Mexico, the restoration
of a broken trend of poverty reduction in Chile, and the emergence of poverty in
the faltering economy of Argentina. | en_US |
