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

the relationship between economic growth and poverty in Alagoas, all data was obtained from Atlas of Human Development for … to combat to the poverty qualitative, in others words, if that growth can be considered pro-poor. For that, we estimate … the elasticity of the poverty with the economic growth for the microregions from Alagoas. Our findings indicate a negative …

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 …

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 …

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 …

. 287/2016) on poverty and inequality has been largely impressionistic to date. The present study tries to bridge this gap … the comparison of poverty and inequality indicators observed in 2015 with estimates for the full implementation of two … indirectly, almost 20 per cent of the Brazilian population). It would increase the poverty rate (based on the ¼-of …

inequality and income poverty in Brazil. We use data from three censuses and 35 national household surveys (PNAD). The … reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … inequality and poverty. The growth required to have made that possible would have been impressive. Such a reduction could also …