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 …

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 … earnings. The fall in income inequality, however, did not display such a clear-cut pattern: the richer regions experienced a …