Policy briefs
Canasta Alimentaria
Todas · Econometría · Big Data · Pobreza · Macro/Sectorial · Diseño de Políticas · Experimentos
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Una nueva canasta alimentaria para Venezuela: La Canasta Alimentaria Efectiva Ampliada (CAE-A), los ingresos laborales y la coyuntura socioeconómica actual
As of March 2026, 41.8% of Venezuelan workers earn less than the cost of an individual food basket — a new ‘poverty wages’ indicator measuring insufficiency at the level of the worker rather than the household. The basket’s dollar cost rose 33.7% year-on-year to US$394.8…
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La canasta importa: problemas en la medición de la canasta alimentaria en Venezuela y sus consecuencias
Venezuela’s official food basket, designed in 1997, contains 44% more items than Venezuelans actually eat. This brief constructs an effective basket (CAE 2023) of 28 foods from the 2024 income and expenditure survey, identifying the products concentrating 80% of purchase volume. Consumption is starkly unequal…