Changes in the family structure and impacts on the poverty reduction in Brazil - The main purpose of this paper is to … analyze the association among observed changes in the family structure and the poverty condition in Brazil between 1981 and … observed changes in the family structure has played an important role reducing the poverty indices in Brazil. To reach such …

The paper analyses poverty in Brazil from 1992 to 2004, combining the usual measure based on income with other … indicators of well-being and social development, thus better capturing different poverty situations. Using data from an annual … non-poor. Type I poverty, which affects one third of Brazilian population, showed cyclical variations, with no clear …