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the Brazilian economy, its participation in the process of globalization has been limited so far, except for the movement …
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structural changes related to the occurrence of simultaneous process like industrialization and deindustrialization are worth of …
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This article evaluates the main effects for the Brazilian economy from the creation of a free trade zone among the BRICS economies. A welfare analysis suggests the Chinese economy to be the closest - in comparison to the remaining BRICS - to the definition of a natural trade partner for Brazil....
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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 more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...
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This paper aims to explain the immediate causes of per capita income growth, the decline in income inequality and poverty reduction in five different geographic regions - Brazil, the Northeastern region, the state of Bahia, the metropolitan area of Salvador and nonmetropolitan areas of Bahia -...
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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...
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This text investigates, for 2004 and 2009, the characteristics and living conditions of four demographic categories defined by household per capita income values. These are the extreme poor (those whose per capita incomes were less than R$ 67 in 2009), the poor (between R$ 67 and R$ 134), the...
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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...
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The available estimations about the effect of minimum wage on poverty relies on partial equilibrium analysis. We estimate these effects in Brazil through a general equilibrium framework, dealing with lots of indirect effects of minimum wage. Using a computable general equilibrium model we...
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