Downloads (or reuses a cached copy of) a Latinobarometro survey wave from latinobarometro.org, sanitizes variable and value-label names, optionally renames variables to cross-year-consistent names via the official time-series crosswalk, and optionally merges World Bank population weights.
Both migration and remittances in the countries of North Central America (NCA) have been affected by the health and economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] It was widely predicted at the beginning of the pandemic that the related restrictions and widespread economic contraction would lead to a sharp decline in remittances if they resulted in earnings reductions for migrants. At...
The sheer magnitude of remittance flows to the three countries in Northern Central America (NCA) would suggest that they must play a significant role in reducing poverty. However, the links between migration, remittances, and poverty and inequality are complex, making it difficult to determine the effects a priori. [...] In this chapter, we explore the evolution of the relationships between...
About 85 million persons with disabilities live in Latin America and the Caribbean today. They comprise a highly heterogeneous population, but share a common history of invisibility and exclusion. In the last decades, persons with disabilities have improved their situation in terms of statistical visibility, poverty reduction, access to schools, and increased recognition and participation in...
This note describes how poverty measures reported by the World Bank can be replicated using the Stata command povcalnet. Users can estimate poverty at any poverty line for the world, regions or sets of countries, by directly querying the World Bank's database of household surveys. The command also retrieves inequality statistics provided by the database.
About one in four Latin Americans self-identify as Afro-descendants today. They comprise a highly heterogeneous population and are unevenly distributed across the region, but share a common history of displacement and exclusion. Despite significant gains over the past decade, Afro-descendants still are overrepresented among the poor and are underrepresented in decision-making positions, both...
The povcalnet commands allows Stata users to compute poverty and inequality indicators for more than 160 countries and regions in the World Bank's database of household surveys. It has the same functionality as the PovcalNet website. PovcalNet is a computational tool that allows users to estimate poverty rates for regions, sets of countries or individual countries, over time and at any poverty...