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    Progress out of Poverty Index: Una propuesta alternativa para identificar la pobreza en Colombia
    (Universidad EAFIT, 2018) Ospina Muñoz, María Camila; Astorquiza Bustos, Bilver Adrián
    In the present investigation was shown PPI as an alternetive to measure poverty in Colombia -- The PPI is a method that contains ten variables, which can be measured -- This method has a relative low cost, it is comparable and it does not require much time to be calculated -- For the calculation of the PPI, the data provided by the National Administrative Department of Statistics - DANE, for the period 2009 - 2016 were fundamental -- The results thrown by the PPI suggest a gradual attention by the government for the 24 departments, begining by the following five departments: Bolívar, Caquetá, Córdoba, Chocó, La Guajira -- Also, when PPI is compared with Multidimensional Poverty Index - IPM, Monetary Poverty and Extreme Monetary Poverty we found that the results in general are quite consistent -- The higher the PPI score, these methods to measure poverty presented reductions, which makes a lot of sense, given that the PPI score between higher represents a poverty drecrease and other methods to measure poverty when they decrease indicate a poverty reduction -- After the above, we took some variables sustained in economic literature which could have some influence on the PPI such as Gross Domestic Product - GDP, unemployment and population -- To normalize the variables GDP, unemployment and population, these variables were taken in Natural Logarithm -- Through a panel of static data with fixed effects (within), we found that GDP and unemployment were significant statistics -- What it means, GDP and unemployment as independent variables could explain the independent variable PPI