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 …

This paper discusses the question of the concentrated pattern of agricultural development in Brazil, as expressed in … agrarian reform; and the second, that sees in this concentrated pattern of agricultural growth in Brazil a technological … problem. As argued in the paper, these policies turned unviable in Brazil not only the agricultural temporary labor market …

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 …

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 …

Time and locally specific poverty lines for Brazilian metropolitan areas, which concentrate a third of the country … 80's. Although the sensibility of poverty to the cycle is high, its long-term effect was neutral in terms of incidente of … poverty from the income point of view, but clearly adverse when labor market indicators were considered. National Household …