Abstract

TOBASURA-JIMENEZ, Eliana Marcela  and  CASAS-HERRERA, Julián Augusto. Subjective Poverty Line for Tunja, Colombia 2015. Apuntes del Cenes [online]. 2017, vol.36, n.64, pp.253-282. ISSN 0120-3053.  https://doi.org/10.19053/01203053.v36.n64.2017.6548.

Most governments of the departments of Colombia have been announcing significant decreases in poverty in recent years as a success resulted from their own actions. However, the perception of Colombians disagrees with these opinions. Therefore, it is important to establish complementary measures that take into account the perception of those who consider themselves to be in poverty, with the purpose of creating more accurate public policies to mitigate and overcome the negative consequences of poverty. This paper shows an estimate of the Subjective Poverty Line using three methods for Tunja in 2015, which indicates that DANE (Office of National Statistics of Colombia) has underestimated the poverty line in the city by at least 30%.

Keywords : living conditions; subjective poverty line; measurement and analysis of poverty.

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