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LA DISMINUCIÓN DE LA POBREZA EN VENEZUELA ENTRE 2001 Y 2007: ALCANCE Y SOSTENIBILIDAD.

LA DISMINUCIÓN DE LA POBREZA EN VENEZUELA ENTRE 2001 Y 2007: ALCANCE Y SOSTENIBILIDAD.

Authors :
CUEVAS, EMIRO A. MOLINA
GONZÁLEZ TÉLEZ, SILVERIO
GIMÉNEZ MERCADO, CLAUDIA
Source :
Montalban. 2009, Vol. 43, p101-122. 22p. 6 Charts, 1 Graph.
Publication Year :
2009

Abstract

The article presents an exam on the demise of income poverty in Venezuela between the years 2001 and 2007. Applying additive decomposing properties from the measures created by Foster, Greer and Thorbecke to the data from the Household Survey conducted by National Statistics Institute (INE), a comparative characterization of homes with income poverty in Venezuela (years 2001 and 2007) is obtained, which reveals factors associated with the observed demise of poverty. Following this process, comparisons are made with structural poverty measures, such as the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Method and the Human Poverty Index. In addition, the household income is divided in order to examine its components, trying to identify which parts of that income have had the most influence on the demise of poverty during that period. Finally, the home structure is examined using traditionally poverty-associated variables, which facilitate an appreciation of the socio-economic change that has occurred. The study concludes that demise of observed poverty by concept of income is due more to the rise of none-labor-related incomes at home, particularly referring to state and family transference, rather than to its member's productive work. It is also concluded that the demise of observed poverty is very much linked to the growth of public spending, which is generated by the State's current oil boom, and that this growth has not transformed itself in enough structural results concerning the population's life-condition improvement, nor in changes that can avoid new rises of poverty once this boom comes to pass and the adjustments become indispensable. It is a cycle that Venezuela's oil-oriented economy and society have experienced several times in the last half century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
Spanish
ISSN :
02529076
Volume :
43
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Montalban
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
59244731