Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Leite, Phillippe G.; … - In: Journal of Development Economics 93 (2010) 1, pp. 20-36
Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction between the mid-1980s and the mid-2000s reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds considerable variation in the poverty-reducing...