Same city, worlds apart : multidimensional poverty and residential segregation in Buenos Aires
Abstract: One of the most salient characteristics of urban poverty and inequality in the City of Buenos Aires is the territorial segregation of poverty in informal settlements, the majority of which are concentrated in the city’s southern zone. The objective of this paper is to analyze the gaps i...
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| Formato: | Documento de conferencia |
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Asociación Argentina de Economía Política
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.uca.edu.ar/handle/123456789/9376 |
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| Sumario: | Abstract: One of the most salient characteristics of urban poverty and inequality in the City
of Buenos Aires is the territorial segregation of poverty in informal settlements, the majority
of which are concentrated in the city’s southern zone. The objective of this paper is to
analyze the gaps in both income and multidimensional poverty between the formal and
informal neighborhoods of the City of Buenos Aires. We measure multidimensional poverty
based on the method proposed by Alkire and Foster (2011) and income poverty based on
the official poverty lines and measurement methodology, with the purpose of presenting a
more accurate description of the incidence and intensity of poverty in these two distinct
areas of the city. The analysis is based on the city government’s 2016 Annual Household
Survey, which is unique in that it collects data on a statistically representative sample of
households living in the jurisdiction’s informal settlements. |
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