Abstract

ARAKAKI, Agustín. Four decades of Unsatisfied Basic Needs in Argentina. Trab. soc. [online]. 2016, n.27, pp.269-290. ISSN 1514-6871.

Although Poverty Line (PL) is the most popular method for identification of poor people, its ability to account for a multidimensional phenomenon such as poverty has been questioned. Different methodologies have been proposed, one of the most important is the method of Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN). In this context, this article aims to adapt the latter to be applied to data from the Permanent Household Survey and analyze the evolution of the proportion of people identified as poor using this method in the long term. We show that the number of people in households with UBN tends to reduce in the long term, but at different stages, whose averages are steps having a decreasing height. As a result of this evolution, 9.3% of the population in the GBA and 9.2% of the population in 28 cities lived in households with unsatisfied basic needs at the end of 2013. At the same time, we show that our results can be considered a good complement to the information provided by the method of the PL.

Keywords : Poverty; Unsatisfied Basic Needs; Argentina; Methodology for Poverty Measurement.

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