The paper analyses poverty in Brazil from 1992 to 2004, combining the usual measure based on income with other … indicators of well-being and social development, thus better capturing different poverty situations. Using data from an annual … non-poor. Type I poverty, which affects one third of Brazilian population, showed cyclical variations, with no clear …

, inequality and poverty are not exactly the same, the trends are very similar: income growth, the fall in inequality and poverty …

levels of poverty and extreme poverty offers a unique opportunity to examine the most relevant factors to explain changes … average gap of poverty; and iv) the severity of poverty. Once that between 2001 and 2003 there was no reduction in poverty, we … investigated the contribution of the determining factors for the decline in poverty and extreme poverty only in the subperiod 2003 …

levels of poverty and extreme poverty offers a unique opportunity to examine the most relevant factors to explain changes … average gap of poverty; and iv) the severity of poverty. Once that between 2001 and 2003 there was no reduction in poverty, we … investigated the contribution of the determining factors for the decline in poverty and extreme poverty only in the subperiod 2003 …

, inequality and poverty are not exactly the same, the trends are very similar: income growth, the fall in inequality and poverty …. -- household surveys ; income distribution ; income inequality ; income poverty …