This paper provides the first empirical research on the intra-household distribution of resources and individual poverty levels in Brazil. A collective model for household behavior was estimated using cross-section microdata from the Brazilian Consumer Expenditure Survey. The findings show that the ...
Poverty and Inequality in Brazil: The Depletion of the Distributive Effects of the Real Plandoi:10.2139/ssrn.232569The persistence of absolute poverty in Brazil is associated with high levels of income inequality. For this article, this association is the departing point foSocial Science Electronic ...
Extreme poverty, defined as living below the line of 2.15 U.S. dollars per day, fell from 5.9 percent to 4.4 percent in the same period, said the report compiled by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Brazil's Gini index, a key measure of income inequality, remain...
Poverty, inequality and health. An International Perspective Poverty, Inequality and Health: An International Perspective raises new and critical issues about health inequalities. It is unique in that it provides the... E Shah - 《Bulletin of the World Health Organization》 被引量: 154发表: 2001...
The distribution of income in Brazil is undoubtedly very skewed. However, it is not possible to come to conclusions about changes that might have occurred in the degree of inequality over time. Finally, the article includes data on the distribution of education and the distribution of life ...
Poverty and Inequality in Ecuador, Brazil and Mexico after the 2008 Global CrisisHow Deep Is The Impact Of The 2008 Global Crisis On Ecuador, Brazil And Mexico? Although Having Similar Experience With The Policies Of The Washington Consensus, Ecuador, Brazil And Mexico Have Established Differe...
In Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, Stephan Klasen and Felicitas Nowak- Lehmann, eds., 271-301. Cambridge: MIT Press.Herwig, Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Jose Ricardo Nogueira and Cathal O'DonoghueandRozane Bezerra de Siqueira. 2006. "The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System ...
These results contribute to understanding better the redistributive and behavioral effects of income support programs. This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Similar content being viewed by others Poverty and inequality within Brazilian households: an ...
We believe that estimates of healthy life expectancy differ according to poverty and income inequality status. The objective of the study is to describe patterns of life expectancy with multimorbidity with distinct levels of poverty and inequality in Brazil. We constructed life tables for Brazilian ...
Brazil suffers from the persistence of two historically related problems: a high percentage of the population lives in poverty—approximately 23 percent in 2007, or around 42 million people—and the level of social inequality is high; the level of income concentration as measured by the Gini index...