Brazil is a country where the 50% poorest detain nearly 10% of its aggregate income and where the 10% richest detain almost 50% of aggregate income4 . The corollary of this high degree of inequality is that if one is only concerned with maximizing the level of the GDP, the implicit social welfare function adopted devotes half of its weight to the well being of 10% of the population. In other words, Brazilian concentration of income creates anomalies within the representative agent assumptions implicit in macroeconomic analysis where people are worth what they earn. Poverty analysis invert this population weight structure assigning zero weight to the non-poor segments of society and ideally attributing weights to individuals increasing with ...
The evolution of poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas during the 80s is described by means of som...
This article proposes to estimate the growth elasticity of poverty and inequality of poverty and d...
This work intends to classify the growth of Brazil, regions and states of the nation during FHC (199...
Brazil is among the twenty greatest economies in the world. During the twentieth century, its GDP gr...
This work has poverty in Brazil as its general objective of study. The specific objectives are: a) t...
Discussions on poverty always were present in the scope of the economic theory. However, papers that...
Poverty reduction is closely related to what happens to income inequality and average, and the big ...
A forma como os frutos do desenvolvimento econômico são distribuídos entre as pessoas está fortement...
The state aims to meet social needs, promote an efficient use of resources and improve income distr...
This paper investigates the common dynamic properties of poverty rates across Brazilian states durin...
The state aims to meet social needs, promote an efficient use of resources and improve income distri...
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the poverty evolution on Northeast and on Paraíba at th...
Long-term economic growth is a sine qua non condition for ensuring the well being of a population an...
Poverty reduction is closely related to what happens to income inequality and average, and the big q...
Este trabalho analisa a pobreza no Brasil a partir dos micro-dados dos censos demográficos do IBGE d...
The evolution of poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas during the 80s is described by means of som...
This article proposes to estimate the growth elasticity of poverty and inequality of poverty and d...
This work intends to classify the growth of Brazil, regions and states of the nation during FHC (199...
Brazil is among the twenty greatest economies in the world. During the twentieth century, its GDP gr...
This work has poverty in Brazil as its general objective of study. The specific objectives are: a) t...
Discussions on poverty always were present in the scope of the economic theory. However, papers that...
Poverty reduction is closely related to what happens to income inequality and average, and the big ...
A forma como os frutos do desenvolvimento econômico são distribuídos entre as pessoas está fortement...
The state aims to meet social needs, promote an efficient use of resources and improve income distr...
This paper investigates the common dynamic properties of poverty rates across Brazilian states durin...
The state aims to meet social needs, promote an efficient use of resources and improve income distri...
The main purpose of this study is to analyze the poverty evolution on Northeast and on Paraíba at th...
Long-term economic growth is a sine qua non condition for ensuring the well being of a population an...
Poverty reduction is closely related to what happens to income inequality and average, and the big q...
Este trabalho analisa a pobreza no Brasil a partir dos micro-dados dos censos demográficos do IBGE d...
The evolution of poverty in Brazilian Metropolitan Areas during the 80s is described by means of som...
This article proposes to estimate the growth elasticity of poverty and inequality of poverty and d...
This work intends to classify the growth of Brazil, regions and states of the nation during FHC (199...