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 an annual data, we are using the panel data of Brazilian Monthly …

The aim of this paper is to apply a multidimensional poverty indicator to Brasil on the basis of Censo 2000 data. In … order to analyse different dimensions of poverty a set of composite indicator is constructed. For each indicator is … calculated an unidimensional poverty ratio what allow us to make disaggregated analysis too. …

The relation between dynamics of poverty and labor market includes some issues as what conducts certain poor groups to … escape of this condition and what induces other groups to enter in the poverty. Seeking to analyze these issues, the purpose … of this article is to investigate the relation between poverty states and way of occupational conditions in the labor …

trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and … the advantage of providing coverage to a public that is frequently at risk of poverty (children and adolescents). This …

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 …

poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … income as reflected by PNAD (0.7 per cent), the programme has such a significant impact on poverty reduction: its transfers … reduce poverty by 15 per cent and extreme poverty by 25 per cent. Dynamic decompositions of the Gini coefficient suggest that …

In this paper we evaluate how well-targeted and effective in reducing poverty the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was in … Social Protection Indicators of Resilience and Equity (Aspire). We calculate several different targeting and poverty … poverty line or targeting metric used. With respect to the effect on poverty reduction, the results suggest an important role …