This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …

micro-simulation model used for poverty and income distribution analysis. The first two simulations showed that the policies …

poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … systems offers important lessons on how poverty relief can further human development and enhance agency. Future reformers can …

Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) programmes are deemed to be effective measures at reducing poverty and income … and social welfare policies, through poverty. Temporal heterogeneity in the implementation of the programme across the … states is used to identify the causal impact of CCT programmes on poverty and criminality. States that reached the level of …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …

This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … and Chile experienced significant reductions of multidimensional poverty. In contrast, in urban Uruguay there was a small … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil …

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 …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its … Brazilian National Household Survey covering the period 1995-2004. -- inequality ; poverty ; growth ; pro-poor growth ; labour …

poverty. Following, it calculates, through panel data analysis, the growth elasticity of poverty in Brazil and across its …-2007, 1995-2001 and 2001-2007. The results show that poverty has been rapidly diminishing in Brazil since 2001, but there is … index and the “deepness” of poverty …

Ever-more sophisticated studies on the methodological approach and the conceptual scope of poverty have led to a … the location of the punctual and average indicators of poverty vis-à-vis the poverty line. This paper's objective is to … to a greater or lesser chance of belonging to each of the chronic and transitory poverty categories. Categorization …