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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 …
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, inequality and poverty are not exactly the same, the trends are very similar: income growth, the fall in inequality and poverty …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923182
, 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 …
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This paper tracks progress toward municipal sustainability at the main cities of the Piracicaba River Basin. The sustainability indexes system combines measures of environmental quality, human wellbeing, institutional capacity and anthropogenic pressure. The river and it basin are seen as a life...
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This article presents methodology for the construction of indices of local sustainability, applied to the cities of the Piracicaba River Basin (Minas Gerais). The proposed methodology combines measures of quality of the microregional environmental system; the quality of life in urban areas; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685221
The article describes and analyses data on the homeless population that are available in the Cadastro Único. The aim is to present some input to the betterment of public policies, offering a diagnostic of the current situation in Brazil. The article also presents a method for the compilation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519008
The article describes and analyses data on the homeless population that are available in the Cadastro Único. The aim is to present some input to the betterment of public policies, offering a diagnostic of the current situation in Brazil. The article also presents a method for the compilation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014500445
The work investigates the demographic, economic and social determinants of the degree of satisfaction of the Brazilian househols with their income. For that, a ordered logit model is estimated in order to explain the performance of a subjective indicator of income sufficiency built with basis on...
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