TY - BOOK AU - Amarante,Verónica AU - Colacce,Maira AU - Scalese,Federico TI - Poverty in Latin America: feelings/perceptions vs material conditions T2 - Cambridge elements. Elements in development economics, SN - 9781009542036 (ebook) AV - HC130.P6 A63 2025 U1 - 338.98 23 PY - 2025/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Poverty KW - Latin America KW - Poor KW - Economic conditions N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2025); Open Access N2 - This Element derives subjective poverty lines for seven Latin American countries based on a Minimum Income Question included in household expenditure surveys. It compares poverty incidence under the subjective and objective approach, finding subjective poverty is larger than objective for all countries. People identified as poor are generally poor by both measures or only subjective poor, although patterns of overlapping differ between countries. It explores the factors associated to considering oneself as poor - being subjectively poor- when the per capita household income is higher than the objective poverty line. Generally, unemployment and informality are associated with higher probability of subjective poverty. Other factors not directly involving income but reflecting high economic security also tend to reduce the probability of feeling poor. Finally, the welfare stigma effect does not seem to hold, at least in terms of subjective poverty. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009542036 ER -