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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486043
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013465095
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268742
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 sudden fall ending in 1997, whilst inequality kept falling till …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553713
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 of poverty have gradually developed towards the idea that it is a …
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and upper bounds, while just over a quarter are above the ceiling. Almost 40% of the excess poverty is concentrated in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015210022
benefit model for the Bolsa Família programme (whose main strategy for fighting extreme poverty consists of a top-up benefit …-rate benefit, but the difference is not statistically significant. The extreme poverty rate observed in 2019 (measured by the … programme had a flat-rate benefit. This advantage was also observed in the other FGT poverty measures, again with non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616556
benefit model for the Bolsa Família programme (whose main strategy for fighting extreme poverty consists of a top-up benefit …-rate benefit, but the difference is not statistically significant. The extreme poverty rate observed in 2019 (measured by the … programme had a flat-rate benefit. This advantage was also observed in the other FGT poverty measures, again with non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584200
and upper bounds, while just over a quarter are above the ceiling. Almost 40% of the excess poverty is concentrated in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015191565
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social assistance; the transfers to the State are direct taxes....
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