macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … series to access the relation between this weak and unstable macroeconomic performance on poverty and inequality. The … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very …

This paper investigates if the responsibility of the poverty level registered in Brazil is the poor operation of the … decomposition of distributional changes we assess the impact on the degree of poverty of unemployment, segmentation, and … discrimination. In order to estimate the effect of these labor market imperfections on poverty, it was necessary, first, to define …

In this study we present evidence of the impact of demographic factors on the level of poverty based on the Brazilian … consequently on the level of poverty. We presented estimates of the impact on poverty of a series of alternative demographic … to a continuous reduction in poverty, which is equivalent to an additional 0.4 to 0.5 percentage point in annual growth …