In this text we address measurement, monitoring and cost issues relating to the eradication of extreme poverty in … Brazil. We argue that, for the purpose of ending extreme poverty, income poverty is the relevant concept, and that an … administrative extreme poverty line, decided upon politically, is the best criterion. For computational purposes, we use a R$ 67 …

The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short …-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur … estimation techniques which control cases of right- and left-censoring. The most important results are: how longer the poverty …

poverty reduction in five different geographic regions - Brazil, the Northeastern region, the state of Bahia, the metropolitan … the Programa Bolsa Família. Thus, both growth and redistribution contributed decisively to poverty reduction in Brazil and …-term prospects for pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Brazil will hinge on a more equitable labor market in the Northeastern …

The present research aims to contribute to the area of poverty studies by appraising the potentiality of traditional … research methods and the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) as proper instruments for analyzing poverty situations according to … a relational perspective. The theoretical concepts of poverty have gradually developed towards the idea that it is a …

in 2009), the poor (between R$ 67 and R$ 134), the vulnerable to poverty (between R$ 134 and R$ 465) and the non … also present a classification of types of family most likely to be found in extreme poverty. Our first conclusion is that … distribution of poverty has not changed much between 2004 and 2009. Our second conclusion is that the most important changes in …

Herein a characterization of the evolution of extreme poverty and income inequality in Bahia is presented. Extreme … poverty and income inequality in Bahia fell twice from 1995 to 2009, in roughly the same periods, but at different pace. The … first fall begins in 1996. For extreme poverty, it was a sudden fall ending in 1997, whilst inequality kept falling till …

The available estimations about the effect of minimum wage on poverty relies on partial equilibrium analysis. We …. Using a computable general equilibrium model we simulate the poverty level in Brazil if only minimum wage have changed. Our … results shows that an increase on minimum wage increases, although slightly, the poverty level, when the social security …

project that would overcome the rural-urban dichotomy. Their socioeconomic conditions showed improvement in poverty indicators …

2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …