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

, 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 …

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 …

poverty map estimators. Applications to simulated data and to poverty estimation in Brazil show an overall good performance …Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper …

violence. The phenomenon is observed in many countries, including in Brazil, despite its robust legal framework to prevent and …

analysis based on Brazil's historical data over the period 1970-2006 confirm that the manufacturing sector benefits the most in …

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …

This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …