Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

The small-area estimation technique developed for producing poverty maps has been applied in a large number of …-area estimation methodology could significantly over-state the precision of local-level estimates of poverty, if underlying …, Brazil, indicate that the small-area estimation approach is able to produce estimates of welfare that line up quite closely …

surrounding-the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. The authors use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by … the role of early parenthood, child labor, and poverty in pushing teenagers out of school. The potential endogeneity of …. Extreme poverty is another factor lowering school attendance, as children who have suffered hunger at some point in their …

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction over the last two decades reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity … because there was so little of it, economic growth played a relatively small role in accounting for Brazil's poverty reduction … of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In particular …, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty reduction …

, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

This paper addresses the potential effects of the Doha round of trade negotiations on poverty and income distribution … in Brazil, using an applied general equilibrium (AGE) and micro-simulation model of Brazil tailored for income … distribution and poverty analysis. Of particular importance is the fact that the representative household hypothesis is replaced by …

This study applies the cost-of-basic-needs approach to estimate food and total poverty lines for the Brazilian case … representative group of the population. The preferred results estimate the value of the food poverty line at R$258 (in 2018 urban … Southeast prices), and the lower total poverty line (covering also nonfood necessities) at R$455. Robustness checks show that …