Torres, Marcelo de O.; Vosti, Stephen A.; Maneta, Marco P. - In: Nova Economia 21 (2011) 1, pp. 45-66
This paper uses recently released município-level data on rural poverty in Brazil to identify and analyze spatial patterns of rural poverty in the São Francisco River Basin (SFRB). Moran’s I statistics are generated and used to test for spatial autocorrelation, and to prepare cluster maps...