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Recientemente, nuestros Profesores Jhonatan Clausen y Nicolas Barrantes escribieron el capítulo titulado 'Evaluating Urban Multidimensional Inequalities in Peru from the Capability Approach', que forma parte del libro The Urban Book Series de Springer.
In this chapter, we evaluate multidimensional well-being disparities in urban areas in Peru, a middle-income country in one of the most unequal regions in the world: Latin America and the Caribbean. We rely on data from a specialized survey collected in this country in late 2018, which includes information on a broad set of non-monetary dimensions of human well-being. We use this data to specify, calibrate, and calculate an urban-specific measure of multidimensional well-being conceptually based on Amartya Sen’s capability approach. This measure comprises a set of 12 dimensions we operationalize using 30 indicators of well-being achievement. Our main results reveal that the proportion of women in a situation of well-being sufficiency is lower than that of men and that the capital city of Lima shows higher values of well-being sufficiency than other urban regions in the Coast, the Highlands, and the Amazonia. This pattern of disparity holds valid even if we introduce changes to the multidimensional well-being sufficiency threshold, which corresponds to the minimum number of achievements that a person should accomplish to live with an adequate level of well-being.
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