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Pobreza
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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Impacto de los Booms Petroleros en el Capital Humano: El caso de la Apertura Petrolera de Venezuela en los 90s
Contrary to the resource curse literature, exposure to oil investment raised human capital accumulation. Young people in treated municipalities acquired 0.2 additional years of schooling — comparable in magnitude to direct educational interventions such as school construction programmes — and poverty rose to 32% against…
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Ocho datos sobre las mujeres en el mercado laboral venezolano al cierre de 2025 (a propósito del 8M)
Female-headed households have risen from 28.1% of the total in 1998 to 71.3% today, and their poverty rate of 80.3% runs 11 points above male-headed households. Female labour participation of 50.8% is the lowest in Latin America bar Honduras.
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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…
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¿Cuál es el estado actual de nuestras escuelas? Resultados de la Encuesta Nacional de Edificaciones Educativas 2021 (ENEED21)
Enrolment fell by 1.21 million students between 2018 and 2021, from 7.70 to 6.49 million, with an estimated 44% of the loss attributable to emigration. Teaching staff fell 24.9%, some 68,000 teachers having left the country. Sixty-nine percent of schools show deprivation on at least…
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Remesas, Pobreza y Distribución del Ingreso en Venezuela: ¿Qué dice la evidencia?
Remittances reach 24.3% of Venezuelan households and supply 59% of total income in the poorest quintile against 37% in the richest. The identification is clean: recipient and non-recipient households show statistically identical poverty rates of 66% once remittances are stripped out, so the difference between…
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¿Cómo ha sido la evolución geográfica de la pobreza en Venezuela?
Venezuela publishes no subnational poverty indicators, so while national poverty rates are broadly known, their territorial distribution is not. This brief produces a poverty map covering all 23 states, 335 municipalities and 1,135 parishes, combining small-area estimation methods with machine-learning predictive algorithms applied to census…