In Peru, there are papers that study the dynamics of poverty; nevertheless, these documents do not make differences between levels of severity: extreme poverty and non-extreme poverty. In this sense, the main objective of ...

The traditional approaches to measuring poverty use arbitrary assumptions and do not include the relative nature of this phenomenon. The main finding of subjective approaches in this field is that more people tend to ...

The paper discusses in general terms the problem of equity and poverty at international level and in more profound and specific way the case of Peru. The paper has been organized in four sections, the first one presents a ...