applied to Brazil is based on three poverty measures, the head-count ratio, the poverty gap ratio and the severity of poverty …This paper develops a methodology to measure the impact of price changes on poverty measured by an entire class of … additive separable poverty measures. This impact is captured by means of price elasticity of poverty. The total effect of …

Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process …. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …

As much of the world goes searching for alternative sources of energy to oil, Brazil's three-decade experience in … developing a successful substitute for gasoline merits attention. Brazil is the only sizable economy to date to have developed a …