1995 and 2004 as well as its impact on poverty. We use the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey (PNAD) that for the … living below the poverty line (half of minimum wage per capita), and that they were jointly responsible for 28% of the fall …

distribution and the poverty line for a given population. The idea that poverty is morally unacceptable and can be eradicated … the aggregated income required to eradicate poverty by the way of transfers from the rich to the poor. I estimate an …

We propose two different concepts of feminization of poverty and analyze household survey data to verify if there is an … ongoing feminization of poverty in eight Latin American countries, according to each of these concepts. We also verify if our … results respond to changes in values of poverty lines and to different scenarios of intra-household inequalities, concluding …