poverty map estimators. Applications to simulated data and to poverty estimation in Brazil show an overall good performance …Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 …

connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock interacts … with these structural forces and ascertaining whether it enhances or hinders medium-term poverty reduction. In particular …, they consider the interactions between the migration of labor out of agriculture, a potentially important poverty reduction …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social assistance enhances the probability of moving out of poverty and … reduces the probability of moving into poverty. However, double difference estimates (based on a mimicked randomized … household welfare or reduce poverty. Double difference estimates point to a negative impact on welfare. Parametric estimates do …