Description: Education and Its Poverty-Reducing Effects: The Case of Paraiba, Brazil

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Education and Its Poverty-Reducing Effects: The Case of Paraiba, Brazil

Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty requires far-reaching actions in the education sector. Widespread poverty affects both students' performance and their availability to attend school. Low-quality education leads to low inc...

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Main Author:	Verner, Dorte
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	AGED AVAILABLE DATA AVERAGE INCOME BASIC EDUCATION CENSUS DATA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CRIME DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION DEMOGRAPHICS DEPENDENCY RATIO DEVELOPMENT POLICIES DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SITUATION ECONOMIES OF SCALE EDUCATED PEOPLE EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EXPENDITURES EXTREME POVERTY FAMILIES FEMALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS FORMAL LABOR MARKET GINI COEFFICIENT GINI INDEX GROWTH RATE HEADCOUNT POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CHARACTERISTICS HOUSEHOLD HEAD HOUSEHOLD POVERTY HOUSEHOLD SIZE HUMAN CAPITAL ILLITERACY INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME POVERTY INFANT MORTALITY INFLATION INFORMAL SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE INSURANCE INTEREST RATES LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKETS LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LABOR SUPPLY LOW INCOME MALE-HEADED HOUSEHOLDS MARKETING MIGRATION MINIMUM WAGE MORTALITY NUTRITION PARENTS PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES PER-CAPITA INCOME POLICY CHANGES POLICY RESEARCH POOR CHILDREN POOR PARENTS POOR PEOPLE POPULATION GROUPS POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION SIZE POVERTY GAP POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY PROFILES POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY TRENDS PRIMARY EDUCATION PRIMARY SCHOOL PRIVATE SECTOR PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY PUBLIC BUDGET PUBLIC SECTOR PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC SPENDING QUALITY OF LIFE QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS REDUCING INEQUALITY REDUCING POVERTY REGIONAL DISPARITIES RURAL AREAS RURAL POOR SAFETY SAFETY NET SAMPLE SIZE SAVINGS SCHOOLS SIGNIFICANT EFFECT SKILLS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL EXCLUSION SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL POLICIES SOCIAL SPENDING SQUARED POVERTY GAP STATE POLICIES TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TRADE LIBERALIZATION TRAINING UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION VIOLENCE VULNERABLE GROUPS WAGES WATER SUPPLY WORKERS EDUCATIONAL LEVELS POVERTY IMPACT POVERTY MITIGATION STRATEGIES INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY SCHOOL PERFORMANCE IMPAIRMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT ILLITERACY RATES ILLITERACY REDUCATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/06/4610712/education-poverty-reducing-effects-case-paraiba-brazil http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14083

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Summary:	Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty requires far-reaching actions in the education sector. Widespread poverty affects both students' performance and their availability to attend school. Low-quality education leads to low income, which in turn perpetuates poverty. Furthermore, low levels of education affect growth though low labor productivity. Although Paraiba, Brazil suffers from a history of educational neglect, the state has recently made significant gains in primary enrollment; 93 percent of the children aged 7-14 are enrolled in school. However, 30 percent of the population aged 15 and older are illiterate and, unfortunately, it is not only the older generations that cannot read and write: 15 percent of children aged 10 to 15 are illiterate. However, substantial achievements in education have helped the extremely poor segment of population as much as expected. Probit analyses reveal that education attainment is the single most important poverty-reducing factor. All levels of education from primary to tertiary are significant and negatively associated with the probability of being poor.