macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very … in the unemployment rate. There is also evidence that the relation between inflation and poverty or inequality declines …

In this study we present evidence of the impact of demographic factors on the level of poverty based on the Brazilian … consequently on the level of poverty. We presented estimates of the impact on poverty of a series of alternative demographic … to a continuous reduction in poverty, which is equivalent to an additional 0.4 to 0.5 percentage point in annual growth …

Time and locally specific poverty lines for Brazilian metropolitan areas, which concentrate a third of the country … 80's. Although the sensibility of poverty to the cycle is high, its long-term effect was neutral in terms of incidente of … poverty from the income point of view, but clearly adverse when labor market indicators were considered. National Household …

This paper aims at contributing to the debate regarding the role of the minimum wage in Brazil. This is carried out by … assessing its potential effects on the labor market outcomes, as well in terms of poverty alleviation and fiscal impact. First …

This paper discusses the question of the concentrated pattern of agricultural development in Brazil, as expressed in … agrarian reform; and the second, that sees in this concentrated pattern of agricultural growth in Brazil a technological … problem. As argued in the paper, these policies turned unviable in Brazil not only the agricultural temporary labor market …