| Abstract: |
The objectives of this paper consist on two main parts:a descriptive one and
an explanatory one. For the first part I used transition matrices to identify
people who entered and left the poverty line in Peru between
2001-2003.Probabilistic regressions models were used to explain the main
determinants of poverty dynamics. Changes in house members, decrease of active
members,changes in years of schooling and changes in the access of essential
public services play an important role to explain the dynamics poverty in Peru
in those years. Otherwise,just only 28% of the households were never poor,15%
were poor for once and 38% were always poor. This document also tries to
explain that poverty in Peru can not be treated like a static process and the
public policies never be focus in established profiles of poverty in a unique
period of time, they have to be in constant checking. |