applied to Brazil is based on three poverty measures, the head-count ratio, the poverty gap ratio and the severity of poverty …This paper develops a methodology to measure the impact of price changes on poverty measured by an entire class of … additive separable poverty measures. This impact is captured by means of price elasticity of poverty. The total effect of …

macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very … in the unemployment rate. There is also evidence that the relation between inflation and poverty or inequality declines …