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 …

also present a classification of types of family most likely to be found in extreme poverty. Our first conclusion is that … 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 vulnerable to poverty (between R$ 134 and R$ 465) and the non …

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 …

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 … estimation techniques which control cases of right- and left-censoring. The most important results are: how longer the poverty …

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 …

also present a classification of types of family most likely to be found in extreme poverty. Our first conclusion is that … 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 vulnerable to poverty (between R$ 134 and R$ 465) and the non …

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 …

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 …

In this paper we evaluate how well-targeted and effective in reducing poverty the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) was in … Brazil between 2004 and 2019. In order to do this, we use data from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) from 2004 to … 2015, from the Continuous National Household Sample Survey (PNAD Continuous) from 2012 to 2019, and from the Atlas of …

This paper describes the evolution of poverty among pretos (black), pardos (brown/mixed) and brancos (white) from 2004 … to 2014, and investigates whether along with the already known reduction of poverty in the period there was also … reduction of the racial inequality of poverty. To do so, it presents the main indicators of the incidence, intensity and …