Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Carvalho, Mirela de; Franco, Samuel - 2010
levels of poverty and extreme poverty offers a unique opportunity to examine the most relevant factors to explain changes … average gap of poverty; and iv) the severity of poverty. Once that between 2001 and 2003 there was no reduction in poverty, we … investigated the contribution of the determining factors for the decline in poverty and extreme poverty only in the subperiod 2003 …