Barros, de Paes Ricardo

The Slippery Slope Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976 96 / Barros, de Paes Ricardo [electronic resource] : Barros, de Paes Ricardo - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1999 - 1 online resource (78 p.) - Policy research working papers. World Bank e-Library. .

October 1999 - During the turbulent years 1976-96, aggregate data for Brazil appear to show only small changes in mean income, inequality, and incidence of poverty - suggesting little change in the distribution of income. But a small group of urban households - excluded from formal labor markets and safety nets - was trapped in indigence. Based on welfare measured in terms of income alone, the poorest part of urban Brazil has experienced two lost decades. Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability in Brazil, the country's distributions of urban income in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first glance, deceptively similar. Mean household income per capita was stagnant, with minute accumulated growth (4.3 percent) over the two decades. The Gini coefficient hovered just above 0.59 in both years, and the incidence of poverty (relative to a poverty line of R

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Economic Growth
Economic Theory and Research
Extreme Poverty
Finance and Financial Sector Development
Financial Literacy
Formal Safety Nets
Health, Nutrition and Population
Household Composition
Household Income
Household Per Capita Income
Income
Income Distribution
Income Inequality
Inequality
Labor Markets
Labor Policies
Macroeconomics and Economic Growth
Measures
Poor
Poor Households
Population Policies
Poverty Incidence
Poverty Indices
Poverty Line
Poverty Lines
Poverty Measures
Poverty Reduction
Pro-Poor Growth
Rural
Rural Development
Rural Poverty Reduction
Services and Transfers to Poor
Social Protections and Labor
Unemployment

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