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O progresso ocorrido ao longo da última década é indiscutível, combinando menos pobreza com maior oferta e acesso a serviços de melhor qualidade, além de propiciar melhor utilização destes serviços por parte das famílias com crianças. No entanto, mais importante do que a velocidade de...
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Ao longo das duas décadas compreendidas entre 1988 e 2008, a pobreza e a desigualdade de renda declinaram de forma acentuada no Espírito Santo. Cerca da metade da redução observada na pobreza deveu-se à concomitante e também acentuada queda na desigualdade que marcou o período em...
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Between 2001 e 2005, the degree of income inequality in Brazil declined sharply and continuously, reaching in 2005 the lowest level in the last 30 years. The Gini coefficient declined by almost 5%, and the ratio between the richest 20% and the poorest 20% declined more than 20%. This reduction...
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Neste trabalho buscamos avaliar a importância do estabelecimento de cotas locais para o grau de focalização do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF). Com um grau de focalização da ordem de 57%, o ganho do atual sistema de seleção de beneficiários do PBF, quando contrastado a uma situação em...
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In the last years, we are testifying an important changing in the Brazilian income distribution. Since 2001, inequality is decreasing considerably. Nevertheless, Brazil is still one of the world champions with respect to high inequality, which makes the sustainability of this decreasing one...
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In this study we document the contribution of the recent decline on income inequality to the income?s growth of the poorest and consequently to the reduction of poverty and extreme poverty in the country. First, we investigate the income growth of the poorest. We demonstrated that, between 2001...
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In the last years, we are testifying an important changing in the Brazilian income distribution. Since 2001, inequality is decreasing considerably. Nevertheless, Brazil is still one of the world champions with respect to high inequality, which makes the sustainability of this decreasing one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113052
Os extraordinários acontecimentos havidos no país entre 2001-2007, com uma queda acentuada da desigualdade e dos níveis de pobreza e de extrema pobreza nos oferecem uma oportunidade única de estudarmos os fatores mais relevantes para explicar as mudanças em favor dos mais pobres e em...
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Poverty is necessarily a multidimensional concept. The need to rank countries, regions, neighbohoods, time periods, social groups even families requires, however, a scalar representation. A traditional solution has been to limit the concept of poverty to insufficient income. Recently, however,...
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In this paper we avaluate the contribution of two different forms of discrimination (by gender and color) and three different types of segmentation (spacial, sectorial and between the formal and informal segments) in the labor market, regarding the reduction of the inequality degree in the labor...
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