Housing is an important aspect of living standards and quality of life for older persons, but the housing-related problems they may face encompass rather different circumstances, relating to the condition of the dwelling, how well equipped it is, whether housing costs represent a serious burden, and whether the neighbourhood environment is…

This paper studies multidimensional poverty for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay for the period 1992-2006. The approach overcomes the limitations of the two traditional methods of poverty analysis in Latin America (income-based and unmet basic needs) by combining income with five other dimensions: school attendance for…

This paper shows how household data collected for the Ghana Living Standards Survey can be used to calculate national trends in educational performance (enrollment, completion rates and literacy). The resulting enrollment figures are shown to be more reliable than the rather different picture given by official statistics. In addition, a short…