Attacking Brazil's Poverty : A Poverty Report with a Focus on Urban Poverty Reduction Policies, Volume 1. Summary Report

Attacking Brazil's Poverty : A Poverty Report with a Focus on Urban Poverty Reduction Policies, Volume 1. Summary Report

The first central message of this report is that Brazil has over the last years achieved great progress in its social policies and indicators. The second central message is that poverty remains unacceptably high for a country with Brazil's ave...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEMS COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION SOCIAL POLICY POLICY REFORM INFANT MORTALITY SCHOOL ENROLLMENT EDUCATIONAL LEVEL DEPENDENCY RATIOS PUBLIC EXPENDITURES GOVERNMENT SPENDING POLICY SOCIAL INVESTMENT PROGRAMS MICROCREDITS HEALTH PROGRAMS PUBLIC HEALTH CARE URBAN SERVICES SOCIAL SAFETY NETS LAND OWNERSHIP LABOR CONTRACTS LIVING CONDITIONS NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS DECISION MAKING TARGETED ASSISTANCE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEES ENTITLEMENT EARMARKED TAXES QUALITY OF EDUCATION INCOME TRANSFERS MEANS-TESTING DEMAND ORIENTATION ALLOCATION EFFICIENCY ABSOLUTE TERMS AGGREGATE INCOME ANNUAL GROWTH ANNUAL GROWTH RATE AVERAGE INCOME AVERAGE INCOME LEVEL BASIC EDUCATION CAPITA INCOME CONSUMPTION DATA CREDIT PROGRAMS CURRENCY UNIT DEPENDENCY RATIO ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATION LEVEL EMPLOYMENT STATUS EXTREME POVERTY FISCAL CONSTRAINTS FOOD BASKET GROWTH POLICIES GROWTH RATES HEADCOUNT RATIO HEALTH STATUS HIGH GROWTH HIGH POVERTY HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY IMPROVED HEALTH INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME LEVELS INCOME POVERTY INCOME REDISTRIBUTION INDIVIDUAL INCOME INDIVIDUAL LEVEL INFORMAL SECTOR INSURANCE LABOR MARKET LAND REFORM LIVING STANDARD LOCAL LEVEL MACROECONOMIC STABILITY NATIONAL POVERTY NON-INCOME DIMENSIONS POLICY ANALYSTS POLICY AREAS POLICY FOCUS POLICY ISSUES POLICY REFORMS POOR AREAS POVERTY ASSESSMENT POVERTY ERADICATION POVERTY HEADCOUNT POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY LINE POVERTY LINES POVERTY POLICIES POVERTY POLICY POVERTY PROFILE POVERTY RATE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION POVERTY REDUCTION POLICIES POVERTY STRATEGY POVERTY TRENDS PRIMARY SCHOOL PUBLIC INVESTMENT PUBLIC POLICIES PUBLIC SERVICES PUBLIC SPENDING QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RURAL AREAS RURAL POVERTY SAFETY NET SECTOR EMPLOYMENT SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL POLICIES SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL SPENDING STRUCTURAL REFORMS SUSTAINABLE POVERTY TARGETED TRANSFERS TARGETING TAXATION TRANSFER PROGRAMS UNEMPLOYMENT URBAN AREAS URBAN POOR URBAN POVERTY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/03/1552005/brazil-attacking-brazils-poverty-poverty-report-focus-urban-poverty-reduction-policies-vol-1-2-summary-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15505

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Summary:	The first central message of this report is that Brazil has over the last years achieved great progress in its social policies and indicators. The second central message is that poverty remains unacceptably high for a country with Brazil's average income levels. The worst remaining income poverty is mostly concentrated in the Northeast region, and in the smaller urban and rural areas. The third central message is that, with decisive action, Brazil can achieve ambitious targets for further improvements in social indicators, including the objective of reducing the rate of extreme income poverty by 50 percent by the year 2015. Poverty is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. Recognizing the rich literature on poverty in Brazil, this report attempts a few specific contributions. First, it presents a new 1996 poverty profile with a breakdown by city size, incorporation of the imputed value of owned housing, and regional price deflators. Second, it provides analysis of the incidence of selected public social spending based on the 1996/7 "Pesquisa sobre Padroes da Vida (PPV)." Third, it selectively synthesizes other work on poverty in Brazil in order to present an overview of cross-sectoral comparisons of the effectiveness of policy interventions. Fourth, it provides suggestions and selective inputs for devloping a national poverty reduction strategy. The report updates a previous World Bank assessment (report no. 14323) and builds on earlier work on urban poverty strategy.

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