Risk-adjusted Poverty in Argentina

Measurement and Determinants

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This paper presents a methodology for adjusting measures of income and poverty for the risk faced by a household. The approach draws on the standard economic concept of risk aversion, and it is based on the intuition that households will prefer a steady stream of income to a variable on with the same mean.
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Agency/Department
UN/Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Print ISBN
9789211216073
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Page Count
40
Print Sales Number
06.II.G.118
Series Title
Financiamiento del Desarrollo

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