Equity for Sustained Growth : Pernambuco State Equity Assessment
Starting from the aggregate, this report first describes how Pernambuco has fared with respect to the rest of Brazil, both in terms of economic and social welfare performance, over the last decade (2001-2012). In a context of widespread economic gr...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2015
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24804637/equity-sustained-growth-pernambuco-state-equity-assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22407 |
| Summary: | Starting from the aggregate, this report
first describes how Pernambuco has fared with respect to the
rest of Brazil, both in terms of economic and social welfare
performance, over the last decade (2001-2012). In a context
of widespread economic growth, Pernambuco has done
particularly well in recent years, similar to or above the
national average. A key challenge concerns the longer-term,
where – notwithstanding the positive performance of recent
years-the same level of growth may not be as easily
sustained. The solid economic performance has been reflected
in an improvement of social indicators, also associated with
the governments interiorizacao strategy, a policy developed
explicitly to increase the coverage of public services in
underserved areas, with a focus on the interior of the
state. The decline in poverty rates displays a trajectory
towards convergence with Brazil and recently, a faster than
national decline of the Gini has brought Pernambucos income
inequality below the national and Northeast level. |
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