The persistence of absolute poverty in Brazil is associated with high levels of income inequality. For this article, this association is the departing point for presenting a schematic evolution of poverty in Brazil in the last three decades: a sharp decline in the seventies as income grew at...

This article presents income-based indicators using the data from the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey regarding poverty and indigence in 2004. It refers to spatial characteristics of poverty, as well as its relation with the functioning of the labor market and the way family income is...

</titre> <alinea/> This article discusses the role social security and means-tested transfers play on poverty and income inequality in Brazil. Firstly, it briefly describes the different types of cash transfers within both social security and social assistance systems. Then, using simulations based on micro-data...