Poverty Reduction without Economic Growth? Explaining Brazil's Poverty Dynamics, 1985-2004

Brazil's slow pace of poverty reduction between the mid-1980s and the mid-2000s reflects both low growth and a low growth elasticity of poverty reduction. Using GDP data disaggregated by state and sector for a twenty-year period, this paper finds considerable variation in the poverty-reducing e...

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Main Authors: Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Leite, Phillippe G., Ravallion, Martin
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5728